A traditional Norfolk flint cottage can be demolished to make way for a larger home - despite fears it could become a holiday let.

Camilla Carter has been given planning permission to replace the derelict property on the Docking Road on the outskirts of Burnham Market.

A surveyor's report said the 19th-century former farm worker's cottage was in "a dilapidated condition having suffered from a lack of long-term maintenance".

Locals objected to the proposal to replace it with a three-bedroom L-shaped house on West Norfolk Council's planning portal.

One said: "In the past decade I have witnessed the demolition of three typical Norfolk flint cottages on Docking Road only for them to be replaced by substantial modern dwellings which are only second homes."

Another thought the property "looks to all intent to be a potential holiday let, something the Burnham residents recently voted against in the local referendum".

And another added: "The new house proposed on this site is double the size of the existing property and amounts to over development."

Burnham Market Parish Council also objected.

It said: "The scale and design of the proposed development is out of character with the original rural cottage to be replaced, with the proposed development being much larger and out of proportion to the original cottage in a highly sensitive and unspoiled rural location."

Burnham Market residents voted for a new neighbourhood plan that stipulated any new property in the village would have to be a permanent residence after concerns the boom in second homes and holiday lets was driving house prices out of the reach of locals.

But a supporting statement said the policy did not apply to the cottage development, because the property would not be "a new market dwelling".

A planning officer's report says: "There is no net increase in dwellings on this site and it would not therefore be reasonable to impose a principal residency condition."