Parking, traffic and noise worries fail to stop plans to convert outbuilding in Rugby into a house

Three letters had been sent to Rugby Borough Council objecting to the planning application at 3 Lower Hillmorton Road which will see the transformation of an unused building at the end of the garden.

Access to the two-storey building will be from Earl Street which, according to those opposing the scheme, was narrow and busy and problems would be exacerbated during construction work.

But in her report, planning officer Frances Keenan explained that there had been no objection from Warwickshire County Council as the highways authority after the applicant showed that there would be space to park two cars alongside the outbuilding - one for each property.

She added: “The proposal would respect the character and design of the existing property and wider area, utilising a currently disused, rundown and overgrown building into a functioning space.

“It is not considered to impact upon any neighbouring properties residential amenity and the Highways Authority has deemed the parking and access to the site acceptable for both the application outbuilding and the existing property.”