WINCHESTER planning chiefs have rejected a scheme to build two large houses in an upmarket area of Winchester.
The plans for two large houses in the grounds of Milnthorpe and Milnthorpe Corner on Sleepers Hill were rejected at a city council planning committee.
Officers had recommended refusal of the scheme for one six-bedroom and one five-bedroom dwelling because the density of housing on the site is below the guideline level, thus creating an "undesirable precedent".
They said the proposed dwellings could be internally adapted to provide a better mix of housing.
A proposal to put a detached fourbedroom property on the site, with a two-bay covered carport with a onebedroom studio above, was approved by planners in 2004.
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