A plan to build two homes on garden land in Crowthorne that has already proven unpopular with the local planning department has resurfaced.
The applicants want to build two homes on current gardens between The Avenue and New Wokingham Road in Crowthorne.
However, similar plans were refused in May last year due to their excessive size and concerns over the impact on trees.
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And there are concerns from possible new neighbours that the homes will be overbearing on their property.
Bernadette Mitra said: “Me and my husband are in the process of giving an offer for a house in New Wokingham Road, only to discover that there’s going to be new housing right next to our house.
“We have real concerns about emergency vehicle access, it’s too densely built. I don’t think delivery vehicles have been taken into consideration at all. Other properties will be overlooked.
“The houses are built in such a way that the new homes will look into our garden and overshadow it.
“There’s a certain character to the houses in New Wokingham Road and The Avenue. This is changing the character of the two roads and cutting into gardens. The houses in New Wokingham Road will be wedged in.
“There’s a constant battle over housing plans in the borough. They’re packing us in like sardines!
“Only building one home would have been a better solution.”
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Location plans show the site covering what the applicant calls ‘redundant garden areas’ between houses 33 and 35 in The Avenue. The plan does not cut into the land of any other properties.
The applicants have argued that the plan is similar to the Aldworth Gardens homes, which consists of four homes on land to the rear of houses 23 and 25 in The Avenue.
Both of the new homes would come with four-bedrooms. Each would have its own covered car port with space for two vehicles.
The plan has been submitted to Wokingham Borough Council as the area of Crowthorne falls within the Wokingham Without ward of the borough.
You can view and comment on the plan by typing in reference 211770 into the council’s planning portal: https://planning.wokingham.gov.uk/FastWebPL/welcome.asp .
Mrs Mitra is a Conservative party member and its candidate for Winnersh in the 2021 Local Elections. She came in second place against incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor Rachelle Shepherd-DuBey.
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