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DC Casebook: Housing new build - Cottage refused in conservation area

Housing new build

Planning, 9 May 2008

Two appellants seeking to replace a grade II listed cottage destroyed by fire in a Hampshire conservation area have failed to win approval for a three-bedroom thatched cottage because it did not reflect the area's character.

The appellants proposed a two-storey replacement home with a broadly square plan form, finished in brick with a thatched roof. While conceding that the use of brick and thatch matched...