Plans to build three houses on the outskirts of Llanfair Caereinion have stalled as the application for planning permission has been deemed “void”.

Powys County Council have said that an application for planning permission to construct three new houses on land at Tanyfron, a greenfield site that sits below the Broncafnent Lane on the southern outskirts of Llanfair Caereinion, “cannot be considered a credible application”.

The application, first submitted in 2020, has hit a roadblock as their deadline to submit an application to approve reserved matters of the proposal has passed.

As part of their delegated report, Powys County Council said: “The condition of the outline was standard, and so required any application for the approval of reserved matters to be made to the planning authority not later than three years from the date of the outline permission, by 1 July, 2023. 

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“However, because the reserved matters did not include Access, a reserved matters application has not been approved with access on. Therefore, for a reliable consent to be available, Access should have been submitted in a second reserved matters application. This did not happen, and that deadline has now expired.

“Therefore, because it is considered that there is no longer a live Outline consent, it is therefore considered that this application is void and cannot be considered a credible application – it is seeking to remove conditions from an application that has expired.  Therefore, this application cannot be approved as it is not a credible application.”

The setback comes after the proposal had previously stalled because of “unresolved issues with the access”, with the council’s Highways department objecting and calling Broncafnent Lane a “narrow lane” for the development.

Negotiations between the agent behind the proposal and the council reportedly suggested carrying over the access issue as a reserved matter.

The report added: “The case officer was keen to progress the outline and the lack of detail about the access within the outline submission was holding up the case. She suggested that one option would be to carry over the access to be a reserved matter. The application was therefore determined on that basis.

“This application was refused, and therefore a new consent was not established. The refusal was appealed, but the appeal dismissed.

“Therefore, the moving forward of the site was still reliant upon the outline consent, which is the planning permission.”