PLANNERS have rejected retrospective planning permission for an unauthorised one-bedroom annexe built as part of a holiday cottage barn conversion

Forest planners turned down the application for the former outbuilding beside the 17th century timber-framed Callowhill farm house in Brand Green, Redmarley.

Planning permission was granted in 1994 to convert the barn into a three-bedroomed holiday cottage next to the Grade II-listed farm house.

But conservation adviser David Haigh told the Forest Council’s planning department he was unable to support Jane De la Mare’s application to approve the annexe, as the building had been subdivided from the original open plan scheme.

Roof lights, windows and doors, infill panels and the internal layout differed to the original approved plan, he said, and “substantail timber boarded gates” at the enatrance to the site had also been erected without permission.

The revised application was refused on the grounds that the alterations harmed the listed farm house.