A HOUSEHOLDER has been told she can replace her conservatory with a single storey orangery.

Angela Naish asked Monmouthshire County Council to confirm the orangery that would be 3.63 metres to its highest point and extend for three metres from the back of her Willow Drive home in Rockfield’s new estate, could be allowed as a permitted development.

The council’s planning department said it complied with policy that restricts the size of extensions that don’t require planning permission under permitted development rules and issued a certificate to confirm the demolition of the conservatory and new extension are a lawful development.

AN ash tree that is overhanging and damaging a neighbouring property is to be pruned. 

The trunk of the tree is in the garden of a house in New Market Street in Usk’s conservation area and overhanging the grounds of the New Lawns. 

Monmouthshire County Council has approved an application for the tree to be pruned. 

Dr Paul Atwell had asked for permission to cut down the trees to create space for scaffolding to be put up so repairs could be carried out to the roof of his barn in Chapel Lane in the town’s conservation area. 

He said it had been agreed with the council’s conservation team, repairs were necessary due to the damage caused by the trees which, he said, are on neighbouring land and the owner had agreed to the work taking place. 

But the application was refused as the council said it couldn’t agree to fell trees which are not within the applicant’s land.  

The council told him: “It is, however, legal to prune any branches which protrude over the applicant’s boundary.” 

TWO silver birch trees are to be removed from a conservation area due to “excessive squirrel damage”. 

The rodents have stripped the bark from the trees to such an extent Monmouthshire County Council has been told it will “inevitably result in the demise of the trees”. 

They are sited beside a road, at Kinson Farm, Whitebrook and a utility wire also passes through the crown of both trees.