Six-bedroom home is turned down

PLANS to demolish a bungalow and replace it with a six-bedroom property in Barnsley have been rejected by the council.

The original application to demolish the building and build a twoand-a-half storey detached property on Dodworth Road was submitted in July.

After public consultation and a review by the council’s planning board, these plans were turned down earlier this week.

A refusal notice states: “In the opinion of the local planning authority the proposed replacement dwelling would be contrary to Local Plan Policy D1 and SPD ‘Design of Housing Development’ in that its excessive scale, height and design would be out of character with the street scene and development pattern of the area and would be materially harmful to the visual amenities of the locality in a highly prominent gateway location.

“Furthermore, the replacement of the existing single storey flat roofed dwelling with a six bedroom twoand-a-half storey property would constitute a highly incongruous and injurious form of over-development of the site that would be out of scale with its surroundings.”