A plan for five new houses in a Herefordshire village has been approved.

Jason Richards of JR Planning & Development had applied to build three detached four-bedroom houses and two three-bedroom semi’s off the B4348 through Peterchurch west of Hereford.

The houses, of stone and brick with grey tile roofs, were to be in a row set back from the main road on a “semi-private” drive, the application said.

They would be similar in scale to the ten-home development recently built by a different developer immediately to the northwest along the B4348, it added.

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Planning officer Elsie Morgan said the houses would be within the village’s defined settlement boundary, and there was “no evidence or tangible progress towards the aspiration to deliver school parking on the site”. The village primary lies around 200 yards away.

The houses themselves would not be out of keeping with the area, she said, while no technical objections had raised that could not be dealt with by conditions to the permission, numbering 20 in all.

These included a requirement to address the impact on the local waste water treatment works, to address issues with existing water mains on the site, to adhere to county guidance on new roadways, to install cycle parking and vehicle charging, and to plant and maintain trees on the site.