No backing for Church Lane scheme
TADLEY Town Council has objected to a proposed development in Church Lane, Tadley.
Ronald and Lyn Duncan, of Grade II-listed Tadley Place House, are hoping to demolish a one-storey timber cottage adjacent to their home and construct a new dwelling where a disused tennis court is currently sited across the road.
Following the demolition, the site where the cottage currently sits and gardens will be restored to woodland, with trees and verge planting, sensitive to the setting of Tadley Place House.
The landscape design statement states the proposed house “is designed for and would be occupied by the applicants, meeting their reasonable needs as they get older – hence the accommodation is on one floor”.
It says the project would “improve the setting to Tadley Place House when approached from the southwest, and the proposed dwelling would... be of a high quality and with a design which is subservient to the listed buildings”.
However, the town council objected to the development on the following grounds: “The development is outside Settlement Policy boundary, it is not in keeping with Tadley Place and the adjacent tithe barn, which are both Grade II-listed buildings, and it is not within any area designated for housing development in the Local Plan.
“We question why the proposed car port is so far away from the main house and believe this will become a separate dwelling in the future.
“The plans indicate there will be five vehicles using the site and we are concerned about the increase in traffic this will generate.
“Church Lane is a narrow lane and well used by residents for leisure and for visiting the church and cemetery and any additional development in this area should be discouraged.
“If this development were to go ahead it could set a precedent for further development of Church Lane.
“Consideration should be given to the ecological importance of the area – there are bats and glow worms present and we would not want to see the loss of any more trees.”
To view the application, go to the Basingstoke and Deane planning application website and enter the reference 20/00986/FUL.
Church Lane is a narrow lane and well used by residents for leisure and for visiting the church and cemetery and any additional development in this area should be discouraged