Plans to extend a multi-million pound house on green belt land have been refused by Havering Council yet again.

Harefield House in The Chase, listed for £2 million on property website Zoopla, had plans to extend its rear, side and front refused by the council.

The proposal also included changing the roof configuration and was made by applicant and Harefield House resident Mr M Wright, received by the council on May 10 this year.

However, it was knocked back on July 19 after the council determined such a development would harm the character of the green belt.

"The proposed development, by reason of its bulk and footprint, would result in disproportionate additions to the original house and garage over and above their original form.

"[It] would result in material harm to the character and openness of the green belt," the council stated in its reasons for refusal.

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Spaces Architecture, the agent supporting the proposal, produced a design and access statement arguing for the development to go ahead.

"It [the development] maintains the openness of the overall site and does not encroach any close to the side neighbour's property.

"The bulk of the extension is to the rear where there are open fields and does not encroach onto the rear section of these [other] properties garden[s] where no development is allowed."

Havering Council, refusing the application, did so two weeks after it was scheduled to make a decision.

A decision date had been set to July 5 this year, but the refusal was made on July 19.

Spaces also took issue with the council over its prior refusal in a separate planning bid.

On April 9 this year, a previous proposal of a similar nature was refused after planned extensions were labelled "overbearing and visually intrusive."

The agent, in response to this in the most recent application, said improvements to the plans had been made.

"Certainly no argument can be put forward that the ground floor extension is now deemed as being disproportionate.

"The scheme does not impact the open views offered by the site from any angle from Chase Road nor does it impact on any neighbours' views," Spaces added.

Despite this, the council refused the application.