PLANNING chiefs have turned down proposals for a new driveway and gates at a historic farmhouse at Lymm.
Warrington Borough Council planners say the development at Grade 2 Listed Burford Lane Farm, in Burford Lane, would, because of its form, size and location result in harm to an area of mature gardens within the curtilage of the Listed Building.
Additionally, the development would harm the significance of the Listed Building by disrupting the harmonious and established simple boundary line of the original garden and southern boundary both of which define the curtilage of the Listed Building and its setting.
Burford Lane Farm was built in 1866 for local landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton by renowned Cheshire architect John Douglas – who also designed the famous Eastgate Clock on the Eastgate Arch in Chester City Centre.
In addition to the farmhouse there are also Grade 2 Listed stables, cart shed and barn – also attributed to John Douglas. The buildings have been converted for residential use in the past.
The purpose of the drive was to provide access to a garage at the rear of the site. The applicant had stressed that the new access would be of matching design to the existing one.
Burford Lane is a single carriageway country lane and the proposals would result in extra width at this particular point which would enable pedestrians more room to pass each other and smaller delivery vehicles to pull off the road.
The new access would also have been of a higher design standard than most others in Burford Lane.
