PLANNING chiefs at Warrington will decide next week whether to approve a retrospective application for a new house which is bigger and of a different design to plans which were given the go-ahead six years ago.
Members of the borough council’s planning committee have been to view the property in Mustard Lane, Croft, after hearing of objections from the local parish council and from a neighbour.
If they decide the plan cannot go ahead, the applicant faces the possibility of having to demolish the property.
But planning officers are recommending the two-storey house be approved .
Croft Parish Council says if the development is now approved, it will undermine planning in a Green Belt area making legitimate a development that had no planning consent.
“Effectively, the developer will have built to a design not originally considered by the borough council, the parish council and other consultees, which would include most importantly, residents of the area,” the parish council states.
A neighbour says: ”I strongly object to the retrospective planning consent and believe it contravenes my own enjoyment of the Green Belt.”
Councillors were told that in 2009 plans for a two storey dwelling to replace an existing house were approved but never implemented.
The house that now been built was about 40 per cent larger than the original dwelling but only three per cent larger than the house approved in 2009.
While the design of the house differs from the one approved in 2009, it more accurately reflects the appearance of the original dwelling.
It represents inappropriate development in the Green Belt as it is materially larger than the original building on the site, but it does not significantly impact on the openness of the Green Belt when compared with the house approved in 2009. As a result, it is considered tthere are very special circumstances outweighing any harm caused by inappropriateness.
Pictured: The house in Mustard Lane
Planners to rule on house that was built too big
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