If you have ever applied for planning permission to extend your driveway you will know the prolific reasons for refusal. It’s extremely hard to get approval.

There is always some catastrophe waiting to happen as a result of your application. You are either on an incline, bend, or adding to the danger of congestion.

So, I’m somewhat puzzled by the Peaks and Plains Housing Trust’s application to replace four old garages in Bell Avenue in Sutton with four three-bedroomed houses.

Bell Avenue is the only vehicular approach to Hollinhey School and for some reason, known only to Cheshire County Council, is about a metre narrower than normal residential streets forcing passing vehicles to mount the pavement (or lose a wing mirror). The chaos around school times is immense and anyone who can avoids it at all costs.

You don’t have to be a surveyor or civil engineer to see the obvious danger of 200 pupils, parents and teachers disgorging in the narrow street.

So, quite why anyone would think the addition of four new houses would be appropriate defies logic. If any one of the existing householders applied to add or extend their driveway they’d be blown out of the water but not, apparently, Cheshire Peaks and Plains.

Can I suggest the planning committee meets on a school day around 3-15pm in Bell Avenue to make their final decision.

I’m sure a room can be found within the school for the meeting.

(You will probably want to leave home early).