Plans for the three bedroom detached house, with off street parking, were approved by councillors after 16 objections, including from the local community council, were received.
Residents claimed the new house to be built in the back garden of an existing home Robyrna, Berthon Road, Little Mill would worsen parking pressures on Brynhyfryd Close which is adjacent to it and where a vehicle access for the new home would be.
Llanbadoc Community Council also backed concerns about parking and other objections including the three bedroom house, replacing a proposed two-bedroom property it previously said it could support, would be an “overdevelopment of a small site”.
Usk and Llanbadoc county councillor Tony Kear told Monmouthshire County Council’s planning committee a number of residents already use Little Mill Village Hall’s car park, which is opposite the site, and said: “I do feel this is an overdevelopment and I’m not prepared to support it and my objection is maintained.”
An objection from a resident, read to the committee by planning officer Andrew Jones, said vehicles, including the council’s recycling lorries, have to mount the kerb when entering Brynhyfryd Close and said: “There have been several near misses including with my children.”
In a statement, applicant Mark Craxford’s planning agent Glyn Buckle, said if an existing hedge, of a neighbouring property, was cut back it would allow two visitors parking spaces to be maintained.
Planning officer Mr Jones said: “Safety seems to be a key them and a matter officers do acknowledge.”
But he said changes to the plans had been made and the council’s highways officers no longer rejected as a result and the plans met it’s parking standards as both homes would have off street parking spaces.
This is an improvement as Robyrna currently doesn’t have off-street parking and committee chairman, Cllr Phil Murphy, said created the new access, from Brynhyryd Close, would likely resolve the problem of vehicles parking near to the junction as they will no longer be able to do that.
The committee approved the application with 10 votes in favour.
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