Farm buildings near Hereford are to be turned into four homes.

The application to convert the red-brick barns at Manor Farm, Breinton west of the city, was made in August under what are known as permitted development rights, which avoids the need for full planning permission.

There were no issues with road safety, noise, contamination or flooding at the disused farm site, the application by James Manning of Manbro Developments said.

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An accompanying structural report found that with repairs to masonry, treatment of woodworm in timbers and other “minor” works, the three barns “lend themselves to conversion into domestic living spaces”.

The conversion would otherwise largely retain the character appearance of the red-brick buildings, with some new cladding “where required”, the application said, while “modest, simple” new doors and windows would “give a modest domestic lilt to the buildings’ vernacular”.

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The resulting properties would be of one, two and three bedrooms.

While not objecting to the proposal, Breinton parish council “noted that there are no gardens planned, only the shared courtyard with no details of parking allocations for vehicles for the four proposed dwellings”.

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And it asked for more information on how the “significant increase of wastewater” arising from them would not worsen the “historical seasonal flooding of Breinton Lane”.

Planning officer Josh Bailey said that Mr Manning has since had a foul drainage report prepared, and that this aspect of the scheme “can be covered further under the building regulations”.

He concluded there was “no reasonable basis to conclude anything other than the scheme being acceptable”.