Buerton barn plan turned down

A Buerton couple has been refused permission to extend a barn conversion after Cheshire East planners decided it was out of keeping with the rural setting.

Plans to extend Two Tons Barn Kynsal Lodge, Woodhouse Lane, Buerton included a glazed window entrance linking the existing three-storey barn to a two storey extension.

But planners ruled the 'simple bold elongated vernacular' of the barn would be compromised by the scale, mass and bulk of the proposed extension.

And they said the high proportion of glass used in the link would not be in keeping with the regular simple pattern of the existing architecture.

It was considered that the proposals would not "sit comfortably within the existing traditional built environment".

The former barn first gained approval for residential conversion in 1991 as part of a scheme to convert a farm building into two dwellings.

The split-level barn is three storeys tall to the front and rear and planning consent was sought for the erection of a two-storey and single-storey side extension with a two-storey glazed link.

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