Plans to build new homes on the site of a former day care centre have been rejected by Newport City Council due to concerns over the privacy of other residents in the area.
A planning application was lodged in March to demolish the former Kensington Court Day Centre on Oaklands Road, Newport to make way for eight homes.
All of the new houses proposed would have been four-bed townhouses, including a mixture of terraced houses and detached homes.
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The plans received a number of rejections from local residents, one of whom said some of the houses would "be able to see into every room in all the houses that overlook the development."
There were also a number of comments submitted from locals who raised concerns over traffic, noise pollution and the impact on the nearby woodland.
Planners at the council have now refused permission for the development to go ahead, saying it "fails to have suitable regard to trees and adjacent woodland" and would result in "pressure to fell protected trees" nearby.
They also said there was "insufficient information" to suggest the homes "would not result in an adverse impact to neighbouring privacy" due to their "significant level differences" or that the properties would provide a "suitable standard of amenity due to their steeply sloping rear gardens."
The refusal also said the proposal would have a "significant adverse effect on interests of acknowledged importance, namely protected trees, residential and visual amenity."
It is the second time an application for homes on the Kensington Court site, which closed in 2016, have been rejected by planners. In 2019 a separate application was submitted for ten homes on the site, but it was withdrawn after a recommendation for refusal.
In that application there were concerns over balconies invading privacy, difference in levels of the properties and a lack of information being provided.
