PLANS to demolish a house in historic Priest End, Thame, and replace it with seven modern flats, have been turned down by South Oxfordshire District Council.
The district council kicked out the plans, which were the subject of much local opposition, because, it said: “?having regard to the size, bulk and massing of the proposed flats, to the extensive car parking area and to the location of the site adjacent to open, unspoilt semi rural land, the proposal would constitute an overdevelopment of a highly sensitive site and would appear unacceptably prominent and incongruous in the street scene.”
Both Thame Town Council and the local Conservation Area Advice Committee had objected to the plans.
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