A B&B owner who wants to retire has had to apply for planning permission to no longer have people paying to stay in her house.

Jane McCourt, who runs Alfred’s Lodge guest house in Ormond Road, Wantage, has submitted a formal application to Vale of White Horse District Council.

In the submission her planning agent wrote: “The owner now wishes to retire... and to be able to occupy the whole of the building as her principal private residence without being in trepidation of a breach of planning control.”