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Plans to build 11 homes at a former farmyard site were unanimously approved by planners.

The Birches Building Company of Darwin Drive, Ollerton, is to build ten two-storey homes and convert a barn at Corner Farm, Fiskerton Road, Rolleston.

Newark and Sherwood District Council planning committee has approved the plans.

There is a range of agricultural buildings on the 3.7 acre which is within the Environment Agency’s flood zone, and is designated as an area of no further intensification.

The plans propose the demolition of all the farm buildings, with the exception of a traditional barn on the south-western corner, which will become a four-bedroom house.

A terrace of four two-bedroom homes with garages, and six detached homes with garages, four with four bedrooms, and two with five bedrooms, is proposed for the rest of the site.

On the west of the site, between the houses and Staythorpe Road, an area of public open space is proposed, as is a payment by the developer for a children’s play area.

Rolleston Parish Council objected to the height of five of the homes, questioned whether there was sufficient provision for visitor carparking and expressed concern about the capacity of the drainage systems.

The parish council welcomed the provision of an open space and the additional smaller units.

Outline planning permission was granted for the site in December 2006.

Mr Roger Blaney proposed approval of the plans. He said provision of an open space was important — and that it should never be developed.

He said the two-bedroom homes gave a good mix.

Mr David Payne questioned whether a similar proposal would gain approval if it were in the middle of Newark.

He said it was not a variation of existing planning consent, but was a new planning application so the justification for affordable housing was warranted.

The council’s head of planning, Mr Mike Evans, said: “It is a better mix. We have to be pragmatic. If it was in Newark we would apply the same rules.”



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