AN APPEAL over plans to build a detached house in a side garden in the Heaton Estates Conservation Area has been turned down.

It follows refusal of the proposal for 79 Heaton Grove by Bradford Council planners in July. The matter was taken to appeal, but planning inspector Mark Caine, dismissed the application over concerns that the development would “appear prominent and cramped on the site, and out of context with the predominant layout and pattern of development” in the area. The proposal would also “fail to preserve the character or appearance” of the conservation area.