FIVE homes have been approved for a site at Franwill House, Pimperne.

Dorset Council has agreed the application for the three-bed homes together with the creation of a new road access off Down Road and the demolition of an existing building.

The development will provide an extra six parking spaces on the site to bring the number available to ten.

The site lies just outside of the village conservation area with the building to be demolished at the northern end of the site described as having “little architectural value” and not suitable for conversion to a modern, family home.

Application papers say the new homes will be an improvement: “Currently, the site at Down Road offers little to the character or setting of the Conservation Area with a large and tired dwelling sitting within a large plot. This will be replaced with five dwellings that have their architectural roots in Victorian and Georgian design,” said a council report on the application.

Dorset Echo: New homes at Pimperne - Illustration of how the scheme might look courtesy of DMW ArchitectsNew homes at Pimperne - Illustration of how the scheme might look courtesy of DMW Architects

The new proposal replaces a previous proposal for six homes on the site which the area planning officer considered an over-development.

The new layout has three Georgian- style cottage homes in a terrace and a pair of semi-detached properties which will appear as if they are one large Victorian home. All will be constructed of render, brick and flint with slate roofs to respond to designs elsewhere in the village.

Each of the homes will have two parking spaces and a discrete bin store area.

Pimperne parish council had raised no objections to the application with no comments being lodged by any neighbours.