A man has gone back to the council with new plans for a house with views across Pendle Hill after his previous application was refused.

Ashley Rostron went to Ribble Valley Borough Council in February with plans to build two new properties on West Bradford Road in Waddington, Clitheroe, on the site of an existing semi-detached house.

Those plans were refused on the basis that the overall scale and footprint of the development would not reflect the character of the area.

Mr Rostron has returned with new plans, though, for one new house in place of the existing one as opposed to two, and says in a design and access statement the new proposal has taken note of the previous reasons for rejection.

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The statement said: “The new design has addressed the reasons for the refusal of the previous submission by virtue of removing one dwelling from the scheme and also recognising the concerns raised by the case officer in the delegated report from the previous application by virtue of respecting the comment that the new dwelling must be ‘sympathetic to existing and proposed land uses in terms of its size, intensity and nature as well as scale, massing, style, features, and building materials.”

The new design is for one four-bedroom house and a separate annexe building offering one-bedroom accommodation.

The house will have three floors, with the upper floor in the roof space to maximise the accommodation.

The statement continued: “The site is an existing semi-detached dwelling approximately 50 years old located on West Bradford Road, close to the primary school.

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“The site is in open countryside but within a group of existing dwellings and adjacent to a redundant light industrial site.

“It has an open aspect to the east with views across to Pendle Hill. There is a public footpath immediately to the south of the site.

“The house is in extremely poor condition and has been unoccupied for approximately three years.”

Anyone wishing to comment on the planning application can do so via the council’s website.