COUNCILLORS have opposed plans to build four houses on a Machynlleth street after a proposal for two homes on the same land was controversially approved last year.

The application, to build four homes on land between 14 and 15 Ffordd Mynydd Griffiths, is likely to go before the planning committee in January after Cllr Michael Williams decided to call the decision in to allow all members to decide.

The applicant, Stephanie Hewitt of Oxfordshire-based Blue Horizon Homes Ltd, has increased the number of houses in the plans to four after a previous application for two houses was granted permission in November 2016.

At the time, neighbours slammed the committee’s decision to approve the plans “on the basis of an excuse”, after it emerged planning officers had recommended approving the application because of a county-wide shortage of housing land.

A previous application in 2012, for one home on the same land, was refused.

At last month’s full meeting of Machynlleth Town Council, councillors unanimously agreed to object to the proposal.

The acting clerk Izzy Lumley said: “In the past we have objected to these plans.”

The mayor Cllr Tony Jones said: “I believe residents are worried and I am objecting.”

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