FARM buildings in Pinvin could be converted into seven homes and a self-storage facility.

A series of planning applications have been submitted to Wychavon District Council to convert four barns at Byfield House in Upton Snodsbury Road.

The proposal is to turn one of the barns into four three-bedroom homes with open plan kitchen/diners.

Another barn would become two larger four-bedroom homes, with en-suite bathrooms for some of the bedrooms.

Plans for a third barn would see it converted into a smaller three-bedroom home, while a fourth barn would become a self-storage lock-up.

Planning documents say access to all of the proposed homes and the storage facility would come from the existing drive off Upton Snodsbury Road.

“As the access is currently used by slow moving agricultural farm traffic, the change of use to residential dwellings with faster moving car traffic will result in an improvement in highways safety terms,” say architects Sheldon Bosley Knight.

Each of the proposed homes would have its own parking spaces and there would also be four car parking spaces for the storage facility, including one disabled space and an electric vehicle charging point.

For the housing, the developer says “the existing blockwork walling, and concrete panels will be retained and rendered.

“The walling will be insulated internally so that the external envelope of the building is not extended.

“The existing wall cladding will also be retained and insulated internally. The corrugated roof cladding will be replaced with metal standing seam metal roofing which is more appropriate for a residential dwelling.”

A previous bid to develop three barns at Byfield House was rejected by Wychavon District Council in June 2021.

But that decision was partly overturned by planning inspector Rachel Hall in January 2022 following an appeal.

That meant permission to convert two barns into three homes was granted - but delays caused by Covid and difficulties getting building materials meant the work wasn’t done.

Those barns now form part of the revised scheme that has now been put forward.