Plans to build two houses and an eco-cabin in the grounds of a Malvern home have been revealed.
The applicants have already restored a previously derelict Victorian house in Somers Road and are now looking to develop other parts of the site.
A proposal submitted to Malvern Hills District Council is for “two high quality new dwellings” on land fronting onto Albert Park Road that is currently in an “overgrown and unusable state”.
“The proposal will provide much needed new homes in this sought after location,” the application says, “while strengthening the boundary and improving security to 8 Somers Road and other properties along Albert Park Road, as the site is currently at risk of trespass and antisocial behaviour.”
The plans also include a proposal for a “small eco-cabin” that would be used as a holiday let.
“This small scale eco-tourism will help to support and sustain the substantial proposed improvement and maintenance of the grounds as an exemplar of urban woodland habitat for biodiversity,” the applicant says.
Planning documents explain the background of the site, which was bought by the current owners in 2014.
“At the time of their purchase, the property was in a derelict state, with both the grounds and the building having been neglected for a number of years, rendering the house and its environs uninhabitable.
“The gardens of previous generations had become completely overgrown, including scrub, self-seeded sycamore, ash and conifer trees, making the land unrecognisable and unusable.
“Over the following years, the Elgars embarked on a programme of painstaking and extensive renovation, refurbishment and extension of the house, together with sensitive restoration of large areas of the garden, and 8 Somers Road has subsequently become their much loved family home.”
The document says the owners have “no appetite” to build the four houses that were granted planning permission in 2013.
According to the plans, the site sits within the Malvern Hills Conservation Area, which is centred around Link Common.
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