Old farm building can be extended

PLANNING chiefs have approved proposals for a single-storey rear extension to a locally listed building at Walton – despite objections from Walton Parish Council.
The plan at Grange Green Manor involves part of a former farmhouse and outbuildings in the Green Belt. It has been extended previously but this is to be demolished to make way for the new development, which will provide an enlarged kitchen, dining, living room and toilet and utility room.
Parish councillors objected because the original consent for conversion of the farmhouse did not permit development beyond the footprint of the original building. They argued that the proposals were not in keeping with that constraint and represented a further intrusion into the Green Belt.
But planning officers argued the increased floor space would be within guidelines and the increase in the size of the building would not be disproportionate.