A SECOND application for two homes at the rear of a site in Dick O Th Banks Road, Crossways has been refused by Dorset Council.

The two and three-bed properties would have been built to the rear of 26 and 28 with four additional parking spaces created.

Neighbours who wrote to object to the proposal said that demolishing the garage at No26 next to bedrooms to create a new driveway would have allowed for 24-hour access leading to noise and pollution and could have set a precedent for other applications in the area. Another letter said there would be a loss of privacy if the development went ahead and claimed there was little difference from the initial application earlier in the year.

Agents for the scheme said that the addition of acoustic fencing and changes to the frontage would have reduced traffic noise, but council planning officers decided that although the impact might have been reduced by the changes access to the site would remain narrow with no buffer between the buildings and the access drive.

Said the council report: “It is considered that, notwithstanding the changes made, there would still give rise to a harmful impact upon the amenity of numbers 26 and 28 from noise and disturbance associated with the use of the newly formed access.”

The officer was also unhappy with the new fencing proposal to the front of the site saying it would results in “an overly cluttered frontage which would detract from the character of the area.”