Protection 'will make alterations difficult'
MAKING alterations will be more difficult for a homeowner if his house remains on the protected buildings list, a planning appeal hearing heard.
On 4 November 2015, a decision was made to put Richard Walker's house, Balderstone, onto the list.
However, alterations may need to be made to accommodate Mr Walker's wife, who has an illness and it is feared that this will be a harder process, if the protected building status remains.
The property, in Route des Cornus, St Martin's, was situated in a conservation area and Mr Walker believed this was adequate enough protection.
The listing covers the whole of the building, together with the roadside garden walls and a pump and is a group value with pre-1898 buildings on the road.
At the hearing, Peter Falla, managing director of architects PF+A Ltd, spoke on behalf of Mr Walker.
'We don't think the building has survived as suggested by the department,' he said.
Environment's principal conservation and design officer, Alun White, said a survey was done of the conservation area, which it called Les Cornus, and it scored two out of nine.
He said the building had good architectural and historical factors.
Mr Falla said it was 'interesting' that with this low score it had been looked at to have protected building status.
'Listed buildings are affected by their setting.'
