A PROPOSAL to add an extension to a ‘H’ shaped property in Plaisters Lane, Weymouth has been approved with a raft of conditions.

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council’s planning and traffic committee voted in favour of allowing the development at the single storey bungalow Keston. The proposal is to infill part of the current building to provide a reception area, part of which would open onto the gable roof.

Councillors were told the owners of a neighbouring building had objected to the proposed development and felt it would encroach on their privacy.

Coun Christine James said: “It might sound facetious, but we’ve got lots of applications where people are saying: ‘that’s overlooking my property.’ “If that’s the case, we should have the best neighbourhood watch scheme and no crime.”

Coun David Manning called for temporary road signs to be put out while development work was ongoing to warn drivers that the road might be partially blocked.

Committee chairman Coun Peter Farrel said the committee had no authority to impose or even recommend such a condition on the scheme. Committee members approved the development with a series of attached conditions, including one that requires development begins within three years of permission being granted.

Other conditions include resurfacing the first ten metres of the driveway and for no burning of materials to take place within ten metres of the canopy of nearby trees.