NANTWICH Museum's chairman has vowed to fight on to have the building extended after councillors threw out his plans for the third time.

Planning Committee members rejected the proposal to build a temporary exhibition hall after a neighbour complained it would block sunlight into her Cocoa Gardens flat.

Speaking at a committee meeting last Thursday councillor Bill McGinnis disagreed with proposals to give the new building a glass roof to make it more pleasing on the eye.

"It seems to me that no matter which building is put on that site, it is going to be dominant," he said.

"The museum needs a building which is fit for the purpose. It needs to have reasonably high elevation if they are going to hang exhibits which the museum wants to show. They had outline planning permission to extend and the occupant of the flat should have known that when they moved in."

Councillor Donald Potter disagreed and said: "Outline planning permission merely means the museum can have an extension. It doesn't allow the museum to do what it wants.

"When we sat in that lady's front room and we saw the effect it would have it showed her complaint was quite reasonable."

But museum chairman Bryan Measures said he would not give up the battle. "I'm very disappointed," he said.

"This is the third time it has been here and we were hoping that this time it would have gone through.

"But we will go back to the architect. The councillors said it was an excellent design and I can't really see where the difficulties are arising from.

"It will just have to go before the museum again at our next meeting to see what we have to do."

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