Six-home village scheme near Hereford passed

Designs for six new houses near Hereford have been approved.

Outline permission for the six-home development on a field by the unclassified Hollow Farm Road, within the village boundary of Dinedor to the southeast of Hereford, was granted to local couple Mr and Mrs Cleland in 2020.

Their subsequent plan for the houses themselves, submitted in September, proposed one pair of two-bedroom semi-detached properties, one pair of three-bedroom semis, and two detached houses or three and four bedrooms, all of two storeys and sharing a courtyard.

The largest “is designed to appear as a larger dwelling which might’ve been subdivided, in order to uphold the rural character of the site”, a statement with the application said.

The houses would be of brick, stone, timber cladding and natural slate.

Planning officer Simon Rowles considered they would meet identified housing market needs in the area, were “of a good standard of design, and respond well to the local context”.

There were no official or public objections, though Dinedor Parish Council said it was still concerned about the “narrow” single-track road serving the houses, and asked for improvements to the road access here and at the junction with Holme Lacy Road to the east, “given the anticipated additional vehicle movements arising from new occupiers”.

The couple recently gained permission for two more new houses on land immediately to the west.