A controversial move to build a home in a garden is set to go before planning at the second time of asking.
Worcester City Council’s planning committee will be asked again to vote on the application to build a new home in the garden of another home in Drake Avenue in Worcester.
Councillors were supposed to decide on the application in August but delayed voting to give them the chance to visit the Dines Green site first.
While a decision was not made in August, the planning committee was still critical of the application.
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Cllr Alan Amos said the planned new home was a “monstrosity” and was “appalled” at the thought of approving it.
He said building in gardens should only be a “last resort in exceptional circumstances.”
“Just because there is a garden, doesn’t mean it should be built on,” he said at the planning meeting.
“Once that space is gone, it’s gone, and we won’t get it back.”
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Cllr Richard Udall said the area would “cease to be Dines Green and become Dines Concrete” if the plan was given the green light.
“We should be resisting that and encouraging people to have their large gardens in Dines Green and not concrete them over,” he said.
While unhappy about the move by Fabio Hassan, the committee said they could not find a reason to reject it and after debating the application for nearly an hour, it was then decided that a visit to Drake Avenue was required before a vote.
The start time for planning committee meetings was actually pushed back from 1.30pm to 3pm recently to accommodate site visits but the option was not taken up by councillors in August.
The council’s planning officers already allowed a move by Fabio Hassan to build the new three-bed home in the Drake Avenue garden in 2021 which means that even if councillors reject the application, the previous application would still be valid and a new home could still be built anyway.
A new application was then put forward last month with St John’s councillor Matt Lamb requesting a decision was made by councillors instead over his concerns about parking and the “significant opposition” from neighbours.
No formal objections were made before the meeting.
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