AN ABINGDON shopkeeper has been won planning permission to build a futuristic house on Boars Hill.

The home, above, designed by Abingdon architects West Waddy, will replace a two storey property on a two acre sloping plot on Green Belt land overlooking Oxford.

It has won approval by the Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee.

Raj Parshad, who runs a grocery store in Reynolds Way, off Saxton Road, Abingdon, said the flat roofed home was “in a high quality contemporary style, which will exploit the natural features”.

To limit the height of the two-level building in one of the most sensitive green sites around Oxford, the lower floor of the building will be built into the sloping ground.

An ancillary building is also proposed for a gym and hobbies room, with a home office proposed further away from the house.

The existing house Greenaways, on Bedwells Heath, is not listed.

One neighbour Ms Helena Norrmen, of Guildway, Bedwells Heath, south of the proposed property, objected to the scale of the development and proposed outbuildings.