PLANS to build four homes on green fields in St Weonards have been submitted to Herefordshire planners.

The proposed site, which is currently in agricultural use, is located off the A466, opposite the village Post Office and comprises a parcel of land south of Church Hill, with an area of 0.24 hectares.

One of the four detached dwellings would be afforded a double garage, with the remainder of properties afforded two private parking spaces each.

All of the properties will provide small family homes, each with three bedrooms and would use the existing access along with a new proposed access off the unclassified road.

The applicant, Brian Whistance, sought advice from the local planning authority and subsequently reduced his plans to only build in the northern field following the planners’ advice who said that in principle that development on this parcel of land would be considered acceptable for four dwellings, however landscape and design issues would need to be carefully considered.

The village is undergoing considerable development at its southern entrance, with a new estate built on the western side of the main road, and the fields opposite overlooked by the church, and previously owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, also set for new housing.

The agent HDP Architecture adds that proposed development has been designed to ensure it is in keeping and sympathetic to the surrounding character of St Weonards and surrounding landscape.

The dwellings will be constructed using local stone and slate as well as incorporating the area’s design details into created dwellings that are slightly different to each other to provide more variety on the site and to help create a positive relation to the sloping site.

Hedgerow structures will be preserved around the site to preserve the visual unit of the area.

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Comments on the application, number P262210/F, can be made via Herefordshire Council’s planning portal until Thursday, October 8.