A plan to build a chalet bungalow for an elderly person in a Bletchley backgarden has been rejected because it would have changed the character of the area.
Mrs Pieronilla Martuccio had appealed to a Government inspector after Milton Keynes Council had thrown out the plan for a property in Clifford Avenue.
David Carter, a planning inspector who visited the area on September 30, said: “While I respect the desire to provide accommodation for an elderly person those considerations are not sufficient to overcome the harm I have identified arising from the inappropriate form of development proposed.”
The inspector was told that the plan was to sell the house to finance a two bedroom bungalow, where a live-in carer would be able to stay.
Nearby residents had objected to the proposal because of potential overlooking from bedroom windows in the roof space.
The applicants had pointed out other properties that had been allowed to develop and he noted other rear extensions, and rear garden developments in the area.
But the inspector said: “There are no structures comparable in scale to the appeal proposal.”
He concluded that the proposed bungalow would “appear as an incongruous and overbearing” which would “dominate and change the traditional character of the rear gardens for a significant number of properties” in the area.
In his decision notice dated November 25, he concluded that the proposal would “represent an inappropriate form of development harmful to the character and appearance of the area.”
© MKFM News 2020
