A PLAN to build a new storey on top of a city bungalow has been rejected by the council because it included a canopy.

Worcester City Council has turned down a proposal to add another floor to a bungalow known as Rose Villa in Nunnery Lane off Spetchley Road.

Planning officers said the intention to erect a canopy on the front of the Worcester bungalow meant they could not support the scheme by Jabran Khalid.

The ‘prior approval’ application asked the council to rule whether an extension of up to eight metres high for detached homes would be allowed without having to apply for planning permission.

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A report, which outlined the council’s objection, said: “The proposal includes alterations to the front elevation to include a roof canopy which falls outside the scope of Class AA(b).

“The roof canopy is not considered to be an engineering operation reasonably necessary for the construction of the proposed additional storey.”

In some cases, one storey can be built on top of existing homes under ‘permitted development’ rights without the need for planning permission.

The green space off Nunnery Lane has been the scene of several controversial planning applications in recent years.

A new two-storey four-bed home was eventually allowed to be built by Jabran Khalid after a two-year row with the city council and his neighbours.

The council’s planning committee refused the plan for the new four-bed home but was then overruled following an appeal to the government’s planning inspector who said the work should be allowed to go ahead.

After work had begun, a new application to build a six-bed home was then put forward by Mr Khalid and councillors again rejected the plan, despite council planning officers recommending it should be approved, saying it was too big and out of character for the street.

The council had originally said the land should have remained as a garden and not built on when permission was originally granted for the Rose Villa bungalow in 2009.

A number of neighbours in Nunnery Lane raised “strong” concerns about the plan saying it was too much development on a small plot.