A PLEA to turn a garage into a single bedroom bungalow for its disabled owner was handed a life-line after councillors voted to visit the site, rather than turning it down.

Bromsgrove District Council's planning committee, last Monday, voted to go on a site visit rather than following officers' advice to refuse the application.

The proposal involves converting an existing double garage into a bungalow for a registered disabled owner, in Brueton Avenue.

In a report to the committee, officers said: "The applicants intend to occupy the proposed bungalow themselves and sell the existing property because for medical reasons the owner, Mr Cairns, requires accommodation on the ground floor level."

But officers said the detached garage was only acceptable as ancillary to the bungalow.

In their report, they said: "The proposal would amount to over development of the site providing inadequate levels of privacy between the existing and proposed dwellings and a cramped appearance in the street scene."

The application is due to be discussed at the next planning meeting.