PLANS for three homes on a site in Chickerell Road, Weymouth are being recommended for approval – despite claims that it would be an over development.

Objectors have written to the borough council to say that the Villeti Homes application for a plot next to 201 Chickerell Road would looked cramped and out of place.

The site is currently a rectangular area of grass and scrub on the southern side of the road, immediately to the west of a row of terraced properties.

Developers want to build three 3-bed detached homes on the site with access off Baycliff Road to the rear. They say they will terrace the sloping site to give the new owners level gardens and two parking spaces each.

Two residents have objected to the development claiming that properties will be overlooked by the new homes; that two of the three homes are overly tall; that the area will lose green space and that the development could set a precedent for building on other scrubland to the south.

But planning officer Charlotte Haines tell councillors in her assessment of the site that the design makes the most efficient use of the plot and is in keeping with other developments in the area. The question of precedent should not arise because the nearby land has tree protection orders in place.

She is recommending approval of the scheme, subject to conditions relating to design details and an agreement about how protected trees on the site are to be managed before, during and after the development.

The application will be considered at the area planning committee which meets at the Weymouth and Portland Borough Council offices on Wednesday, September 5th.