A PLANNING application for a new self-build property to be built on land adjacent to the Chestnuts in Pontshill has been submitted to Herefordshire Council.

The land in Handley Lane is adjacent to the applicant’s current home, and the proposed design is for a four bedroomed house, which is considered to be responsive to its setting, in terms of the proposed scale, form and materiality.

The proposed dwelling would support multi- generational living or home working, making it sustainable over the long term to suit changing life needs of the occupants.

The agent, Natural Modern Studio Ltd states that the building stock in Pontshill is eclectic in terms of its materiality with local stone, brick, render, clay tile, slate and timber finishes all evident throughout the settlement.

The immediate neighbours have tiled roofs with render and stone wall finishes.

The agent said: “By taking cues from the neighbouring buildings, the proposed scheme would include a light stone coloured brick plinth to the ground floor storey, with a through coloured white render to the first floor wall elevations under a hipped clay pan tile roof.”

The application site represents infill development of an area of redundant garden between The Chestnuts and Chestnuts Barn, which has already been converted into a dwelling.

The Chestnuts is set in a large garden plot compared with the surrounding dwellings. The development pattern of Pontshill is an ad hoc and organic arrangement with no discernible building lines or formally arranged layout evident.

It is proposed that part of the existing access driveway would form a shared private driveway serving both the Chestnuts and the proposed new self-build dwelling.

Each house would have its own private driveway so that there wouldn’t be any need for a separate entrance from the highway.

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