A BID to build up to 16 new homes on a former garage site in Clows Top has been approved.
At its latest meeting on Tuesday, Wyre Forest District Council’s planning committee gave outline consent to building the properties and demolishing the existing buildings on the old Clows Top Garage site on Tenbury Road.
The site is close to the village junction for the A456 and B4202.
Two previous applications to build homes on the site – one for 21 houses in 2006 and another for up to nine houses in 2019 – have been approved in the past.
Three letters of objection were received with residents raising concerns including traffic, existing houses in the area not selling, flooding, drainage and a potential strain on existing community facilities.
One letter of objection by an adjoining landowner raised specific concerns over the alleged presence of their septic tank and drain field system being on the application site and their concerns over the impact the development could have on this existing infrastructure.
A condition was added, requiring the applicant to survey all existing infrastructure and design the development around it – unless an agreement was made to remove it.
The highways authority said no valid objection regarding traffic or access had been substantiated.
Speaking at the meeting, Wyre Forest District Council leader, Coun Marcus Hart, said: “This is a redundant brownfield site and we should try and enhance locations and their sustainability.
“We should try and sensitively expand our villages in a modest and incremental way by utilising land that becomes available that isn’t in the green belt.
“I’m persuaded to approve this because the highway authority didn’t object and this was a commercial garage and transport site, where there would have been ordinary and commercial vehicles.”
