Try fitting a house on a grass verge!

This is the entrance to Heathfield, looking out onto the Duxford Road junction. To the left where the grass is, a developer proposed squeezing a house onto what is really not much more than a verge with a bus stop in front of it.
Heathfield residents were concerned that this would mean there was no space for buses to pull in, at a narrow enough entrance already, and that the drains at Heathfield couldnt take another house at that location.
After some to-ing and fro-ing between the residents and the planning officer, who kept missing each other, I made sure that the district traffic officer turned up and took a proper look, and that residents concerns and those of the parish council were properly taken into account. The application has been rejected by the planners.