THE owners of an annexe to a house in Brampton Abbotts are seeking planning permission to have it treated as a separate house.

The Langman family have applied for retrospective permission for the building Clouds Harrow Flat, to be use as a dwelling, located next to Clouds Harrow within the Wye Valley national landscape.

The one-and-a-half storey building currently provides two bedrooms in the roof space with a ground floor bedroom for the applicants’ young family, the application states.

It is unclear from the application how long the property has been used this way.

A earlier planning application in 2010 to separate off what it called the “garden maisonette with integral garage”, to add a new porch and create new separate road access to the property, was withdrawn.

A subsequent application to add a conservatory to the west of the property was granted permission in 2019.

But a bid in 2021, again seeking to create new road access to the property was refused on the grounds that it was ‘unjustified (and) would result in the loss of character of the locality’.

The latest application does not seek new road access, but proposes widening of part of the existing shared access with Clouds Harrow and planting a new boundary hedgerow.

Comments on the application (242188) can be made until October 3.