Four homes where the consent allowed three.

The plot sits on the corner of Mill Lane and Mill Crescent in Kineton, a Main Rural Centre in Stratford-on-Avon District, facing the village green. It held one empty house and its outbuildings, found structurally unsound and beyond economic repair, and it came to us with an existing consent for three 4-bed houses, granted in May 2023.

Our client wanted to know whether the plot could take four. We drew two detached 4-bed houses with a pair of 3-bed semis between them, kept them to the height of the three already approved, and turned every front to the green, as the houses around it face it. Hedged front drives, car ports at the side and a new footway along both roads completed the layout. During the application we amended the site plan to answer the county's highway engineer, who then had no objection.

The parish council objected, so the application went to the council's planning committee. For it we drew overlays of the four homes on the approved three, in plan and in elevation. The officer recommended approval, finding one more home than the earlier consent an effective use of land in a highly sustainable location, and the committee approved it in June 2024.

We kept the planning moving after the decision while the homes went up: three non-material amendments to windows and rooflights, six conditions discharged, and a section 73 application when the White Lias stone specified for the semis could not be sourced locally, so all four homes are in the same red brick. The officer found brick suited a street "predominantly characterised by red brick buildings". Work started in September 2024, and the four homes were certified as built at the end of 2025, each rated EPC B with an air source heat pump.