CONVERTING a garage into a one-bedroom house at Foxfield, near Broughton-in-Furness, would be "out of character" in the open countryside, planners decided.

Plans by David Nicholl to alter and extend the detached garage at Sunny Hurst were rejected by South Lakeland District Council.

Planners said the scale and design were modest and simple, but the conversion would lead to "the spread of development" into open countryside.