A development company has lodged an appeal against a planning refusal for five self-build homes.

Rutland County Council's planning department refused Exeter Court 1's scheme for the five two storey properties on land south of Braunston Road, Oakham, in July under delegated powers.

This had followed an earlier proposal in April, when officers decided the homes would have a detrimental effect on nearby bungalows in Noel Avenue.

A report put to council's planning committee on 21 October made public that the developer is now taking the refusal to appeal.

The authority could find that the appeal is granted, due to its current lack of a five-year housing supply, which concerns the authority having approved enough homes to be built to satisfy government requirements.

After the Labour government doubled Rutland's house build targets last December, the authority fell short of a five-year supply, which means that it is harder to refuse developments which are outside of its allocated sites.

The appeal report summarised the reasons for the refusal in June as: "The proposal, by virtue of its location and relationship to surrounding residential properties would have an unacceptable detrimental impact upon the residential amenities of the properties that border the site.

"The vehicular access to the site would pass directly adjacent to the side elevations and private amenity areas of no. 170 and 172 Braunston Road, resulting in a material disturbance from vehicular movements to the detriment of their residential amenity. Additionally, provision of two storey properties on the application site would have an overbearing and detrimental impact on the privacy and enjoyment of the Noel Avenue bungalows that closely border the northern boundary of the site, to the detriment of their residential amenity.

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"This impact could not be overcome by screening or landscaping due to the close proximity of the bungalows to the shared boundary and the stream/ditch that runs directly adjacent to this. Furthermore, the long access drive and isolated back land nature of the development is out of keeping with the urban grain of the area."