Roof terrace in Worcester rejected

A move to add another storey and roof terrace to a ‘modern’ home has been rejected after neighbours complained it would ruin their views of Worcester Cathedral.

The application by Khalid Hussain for the additions to the proposed new home in Green Hill Bath Road was rejected by Worcester City Council for making the home too big.

The council said it would result in the two-storey home becoming ‘overbearing’ and would overlook neighbours too much.

More than 40 neighbours had objected to the work saying a roof terrace would ruin their privacy as well as block their ‘well-accustomed’ and uninterrupted views of nearby Worcester Cathedral.

Mr Hussain was given permission last year to build a home with a ‘modern’ design in the middle of a row of listed late Georgian terraces in Green Hill Bath Road in May last year.

The proposed three-bed home would be white with wood and aluminium cladding which sets it apart from the neighbouring buildings which date back to the 1830s.

Drawings showed the new home would be built with one storey at the front and two storeys at the back, which was seen as acceptable by the council.

He then went back to the council earlier this year asking to add another storey for a balcony and roof terrace which would have made the whole home two storeys.

The application did not prove popular with neighbours and more than 40 sent objections to the city council before the decision was made.

One objector, Peter Aldis of Bath Road, compared the balcony to a “pulpit looking over a congregation” and said the proposed extensions would spoil picturesque views of the cathedral.

Several other neighbours had complained about how the roof terrace would ruin their privacy including Charlotte Edwards who said anybody living in the new home would be able to see in most of the rooms in her house next door.

Another objector in Green Hill Bath Road, Hilary Craig, said a “modest” proposal had turned into “an intrusive and unsuitable blot on the landscape” which would “swamp its neighbours.”

“The building as proposed deprives the rest of us in Greenhill and Woolhope Road of an important view across to the Cathedral, which should be protected by existing planning regulations,” she said.