Couple can build new home after all as Shropshire Council's refusal notice is overturned
A Telford couple have been granted planning permission to build a four-bedroom home in Cleobury Mortimer after the county council's decision to refuse was overturned by a government planning inspector.
In August last year, plans submitted by Mr T Singh and Mrs G Kaur to build a four-bedroom home in Cleobury Mortimer were refused by Shropshire Council.
Permission had previously been approved in 2015 for the construction of a detached bungalow on the vacant plot of land off High Street, but subsequent applications in 2023 and 2024 had also been refused.
While the applicants argued the latest development replicated the 2015 application, Shropshire Council planning officers argued concerns raised in the later applications had not been addressed.
The local authority's decision notice said the private access road "does not meet the criteria for shared access" and the development would result in a "cramped form of backland development which would appear at odds and out of character with the appearance of the area".