PLANS for a two-bedroom detached property in a Cheshire town have been refused.

An application for the site came before the development management committee at its meeting on Thursday.

The application site is within a predominantly residential area and falls within the plot associated with 31 Nook Lane, Latchford, Warrington, according to a report to the committee. It also stated that a previous planning application for the erection of a one bedroom detached bungalow was refused.

The report added: “The existing dwelling is a brick two storey semi-detached dwelling.

“Due to the nature of the site and land parcel patterns the property benefits from an irregularly shaped side/front garden.

“This application seeks planning permission to build a two storey detached property comprising red facing brick and a red tiled roof.

“The application proposes the creation of a residential dwelling on an irregular side garden, which falls under the ownership and part of the plot belonging to the adjacent 31 Nook Lane.

“The existing site currently comprises an unused garden plot which has been left vacant for an unknown period of time.”

Furthermore, the report said that the ‘proposed dwelling comprises two main elements to make best use of the irregular site and plot layout’.

During the meeting, committee member Cllr Judith Wheeler described it as ‘a very odd site’ and said ‘I don’t know what you’d do with it really’.

She added: “But this just would not be acceptable in terms of the street scene, visual amenity, let alone overlooking of vulnerable residents in a care home.”

The application had been recommended for refusal.

The grounds for this comprised that the development, by reason of insufficient privacy distances between first floor habitable room window in the proposed dwelling and habitable room windows in the Three Bridges Care Home would have an unacceptable impact upon the residential amenity on the occupiers of the care home, the proposed dwelling would not provide an acceptable level of amenity space for future occupiers of the proposed development due to the proposed area and irregular layout and, therefore, the development would provide an unacceptable level of amenity for any future occupiers of the proposed dwellinghouse – as well as that the proposed development as a result of its size, and position close to the boundary with 31 Nook Lane, would appear as cramped addition to the street scene exacerbated by the limited space around the building, limited amenity space and the loss of front garden for the provision of space for car parking for the existing and proposed dwellings.

The committee refused the application.