PLANNING chiefs at Warrington have thrown out an application for extensions to a historic Green Belt cottage – even though they agree they would result in only a minimal increase in the size of the building.
But the building, in Warrington Road, Lymm, has been the subject of previous permitted development applications – some of which have not been carried out – and the cumulative effect of these would result in an increase in size “far in excess” of the 33 per cent permitted in the Green Belt.
As a result, officers decided to refuse the new application, which was for the removal of existing flat and pitched roofs and construction of a new pitched roof and open oak post porch.
The cottage is shown on the 1837 Cheshire Tithe Map and is believed to have been unchanged in 1947.
Planning officers decided the proposals would result in a disproportionate increase in the size of the property and, as such, was unacceptable.
The cottage was described as a relatively large property consisting of the original building, plus two later two storey extensions and a double garage.
In 2015 further single-storey and two-storey extensions and a further garage were approved under permitted development rights, but only the garage was built.
