Council rejects fresh Bidford homes application

Planning officials had recommended that the latest application should be granted subject to conditions.

As part of the council's core strategy, Bidford is classified as one of eight Main Rural Centre that are, between them, being asked to take approximately 2,830 homes between now and 2031.

At the same meeting on Wednesday night, councillors rejected plans to demolish a house called Blamore in Falcon Crescent, also in Bidford, to make way for three terraced houses and four apartments, and an application to built two retirement properties on land at Meadow Court, Alcester Road, Wootton Wawen.

Two applications were approved. They were one to enclose a loggia with new glazed doors and internal alteration at The Moat House, Dorsington Road, Dorsington - the historic property owned by Cllr Robert Vaudry - and a variation to previously approved plans for a care home at Avon Court , Scholars Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, to increase to basement floor area, introduce two lightwells, increase from 63 to 64 bedrooms, repositioning of main entrance and minor elevational changes.

See next week's Herald for a full report on the Bidford application's second refusal.