A PLAN to build an extension on the back of a house has been turned down by the council after it said it would be “overbearing.”

Planners at Worcester City Council have turned down a move by Sajid Hussain to add another storey to an extension built at a home in Wyld’s Lane in Worcester last year.

The application asked for permission to demolish an existing four-metre-high extension and build a new six-metre-high replacement.

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The council’s planners said: “Extensive alterations have been carried out to the property following the approval of the retrospective application in 2023.

“The design of the original property is of a traditional terrace and the additions to the rear are of modern design and using materials which do not match the existing.

"This doesn’t necessarily result in an unacceptable development and in this case, the additions contrast well with the traditionally designed terrace.

“However, the proposed projection of the first floor would be considered excessive at nearly six metres and having a flat roof would result in an unsightly extension which would not respect the scale of the original property.

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“The first-floor extension previously approved, and constructed, would be considered the maximum extension appropriate to the property.”

The home in Wyld’s Lane has been the subject of several applications in recent years including a retrospective move asking for permission to build extensions and a box dormer – despite the lion’s share of the work having already been carried out.

A plan to build a new one-bed two-storey home in the back garden of the Wyld’s Lane home was first given the green light by city council planners in 2018 without providing any car parking despite concerns from the county council’s highways department that the application for the home – which would face the congested Richmond Road – did not fall in line with its standards.

Planning permission ran out in 2021 and was put forward again without any changes in 2022 and subsequently backed again by the city council despite neighbours saying it would be “hideously out of place” among the 100-year-plus-old Victorian homes of neighbours.