A bid to build a roof extension has been rejected - with planners calling the proposal "jarring and uncomfortable".

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has refused a planning application to remove a roof and replace it with a higher pitch and raised eaves to form accommodation at a house on Station Road South in Belton.

The proposal would have seen the roof height increase from 7.9m to 10.4m.

There were no objections to the bid - but planners said the taller roof would appear "jarring and uncomfortable".

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The scale, form and appearance of the two storey rear extension was "too large and incongruous when compared to the character of the original dwelling and the surrounding street scene".

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Officials also said there would be adverse impacts on a neighbouring house.

"Residents of that neighbouring dwelling would experience an increased sense of overbearing development and a reduction in outlook especially from their front amenity space and their front rooms," they stated.

The house itself was built before 1913 and originally formed part of a small hamlet to east of the former railway line and Belton railway station.