County planners have gone against professional advice and rejected proposals to build a home in a village near Hereford.
Herefordshire Council’s planning officers had recommended approving the scheme which included a garage and construction of a new vehicle access Twyford Brook Barn in Twyford.
But the planning committee voted to reject the proposals after hearing concerns from local residents and the parish council.
Is Leominster about to miss new housing boat?
A Herefordshire town will get fewer new homes, and even fewer affordable ones, than elsewhere in the county under new growth plans.
Assurances given over council overspend
Herefordshire Council overspent by nearly £9 million in the year to the start of last month, despite the council’s best efforts to rein in costs.
Spending on lethal tree disease announced
Herefordshire is to spend £315,000 over the next four years dealing with an lethal and incurable disease damaging the county’s trees.
Noise concerns over resubmitted plan for 85 homes near roundabout
Councillors in Oswestry say affordable homes on a new development near Mile End roundabout can’t be used as “sound blocks” for more expensive properties.
Town council to restart negotiations to open Oswestry cinema venue
Two cinema chains are vying to bring the movies back to Oswestry as the town council backed plans to re-open a historic former cinema.
Concern grows for missing Herefordshire man
Police are searching for a missing man in Herefordshire.
Parents in Shropshire without permits could be fined £70
Parents who drop off their children at the school gates without a permit could be fined up to £70 as part of new road safety measures.
Man prosecuted for working unlicensed as a school security guard
Worcester Magistrates’ Court sentenced Steven Richardson to a 12-month community order, with a 120-hour unpaid work requirement, and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £144 plus court costs of £500, amounting to a total of £644.
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