Applications for planning permission (01F/1914) and listed building consent (01L/1915) have recently been submitted by the owners of Gateacre Grange. They propose to build a number of 'garden cottages' (single-storey buildings with roof-lights/dormers) in the grounds: a block of 3 on the foundations of the old summer-house near Grange Weint, and a block of 6 on the site of the former glasshouses.

We have no objection to these proposals; but we have lodged a strong objection to another part of the plan which is to build a two-storey cottage adjacent to 5 Rose Brow, involving the felling of the very prominent mature beech tree just behind the Rose Brow boundary wall. The applicants claim that this is an 'old tree becoming dangerous', but we feel that it deserves to be retained.