FOLLOWING three unsuccessful applications to demolish a house at Priest End, Thame, and rebuild a modern development, a new plan to extend the existing property has met with the approval of Thame Town Council – but only just!
Neighbour, Dr Bridget Hill, told the town council’s planning committee last night (Tues 18/12), that part of the proposed single and two storey extensions would mean that she would look out on a red brick wall. Both Dr Hill and fellow neighbour, Chris Simpson, said that their views of St Mary’s church would be blocked.
Both neighbours were pleased that the property was once again being lived in by a family and said that they appreciated the applicant’s growing family’s need for more space.
In a letter, the applicant, Mr Tom Glover, said that he intended to stay in the house and leave the property to his children. He added that he would be willing to move a window if it was felt to be too intrusive.
Despite Cllr David Bretherton’s view that the plan would constitute over development, the committee voted to recommend approval of the plan – carried by the casting vote of Cllr Beatrice Dobie in the Chair.
NB Two previous proposals, one for eight homes and another for seven, were both rejected by the town council and the district council, on the grounds that they were un-neighbourly and out of keeping in a Conservation Area
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