AN APPEAL into the refusal to grant an application for a new school in Mitchel Troy has been lodged.

It was applied for alongside another plan to create a residential care home in Mitchel Troy for young people which was granted by Monmouthshire County Council’s (MCC) planning committee in April of this year.

The plan to convert the adjacent barn into a school to provide specialist education for up to 20 pupils with learning difficulties was turned down against the case officer’s recommendations on the grounds of noise and disturbance on the local community, and traffic impact on the narrow country roads.

The application for the residential amenity by The Priory Group, who run a similar scheme at Talocher School, was given the go-ahead allowing the applicant to convert the property known as Hazeldene into a residential care home for up to six young people.

The application to convert the Monahawk Barn into a school for those six and up to an additional 12 others from Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire was turned down by eight votes to four.

A Priory Group spokesman said: “We still believe there is merit in our planning application for an educational facility but we always listen very carefully to local views. Any plans to develop the site would not be taken forward for some time.”