COUNCILLORS have said that an outbuilding put up in the back garden of a house in Rockwell Green should be pulled down.

Members of Wellington Town Council’s planning committee looked on unsympathetically earlier this month to a planning application put forward by Ahmed Sayed for the retention of an outbuilding at Quide House in Rockwell Green – with the work having already been carried without Taunton Deane Borough Council (TDBC) having given permission.

Cllr Marcus Barr said: “It should be taken down – it’s a total disregard to Taunton Deane Borough Council.”

But Cllr Andrew Govier said: “Even though it’s an abuse of the planning process and we find it annoying, it doesn’t mean we have to refuse it.”

And Cllr John Thorne added: “I realise this is a retrospective planning application but I’m not sure why they need planning permission as it looks like a garden shed to me.”

Although Cllr Thorne also said the applicants needed a ‘decent set of plans’ as the current ones were ‘the worst I have ever seen – shockingly drawn’.

Cllr Barr said the outbuilding was ‘massive and not a garden shed’.

Councillors have recommended that the application is refused permission as the development is out of keeping and detrimental to the visual amenity of the area.

TDBC has yet to make a final decision on the application.