Plans to build new 120-home Bromyard estate rejected

Developers wanted to build the homes on fields between the A44 and Panniers Lane, near Bromyard, Herefordshire

Plans to build a new 120-home estate have been turned down due to road safety concerns.

Gladman Developments had applied for outline permission to build the homes on fields between the A44 and Panniers Lane, near Bromyard.

Herefordshire Council's planning officers had recommended the site for approval.

But the planning committee unanimously rejected the plans, stating safe access could not be achieved.

Transport consultant John Lloyd said issues around "safe pedestrian and cycle integration" had not been addressed.

The main A44 "could not accommodate the necessary widening to achieve necessary footway and carriageway widths"," he added.

Finley White, on behalf of the developer, said the proposal would deliver 48 affordable homes along with "vast areas of green infrastructure," while funding improvements to local schools, health care and sports and play facilities.

Access to the site had been "assessed and passed by an independent road safety audit," developers said.