A conservatory at Tarantino's Restaurant in Ilchester may have to be pulled down after councillors refused a retrospective planning application.
The restaurant is located within a conservation area, and planners felt the design as well as the UPVC material used was inappropriate for this location.
Planning permission had previously been given for a pagoda, according to a district council report. Members of the council's Regulation Committee heard that the applicant had amended plans on which that permission was based, resulting in the conservatory being built.
There was confusion when one member pointed out that a pagoda is a Chinese-style building. Chairman Nigel Mermagen agreed and hinted that permission to build a pagoda was highly unlikely in this location.
Members eventually agreed that the author of the report had intended to write pergola instead of pagoda.
An agent representing the restaurant said the conservatory had been put up in good faith. He also claimed that photographs circulated to members were somewhat misleading as they had been taken during construction and not upon completion of the conservatory.
Members had been informed that a similar application for another location had recently been refused. Councillor George Chinnock said council policy relating to conservation areas would go out the window should this application be approved.
"I don't like committees not being consistent," he concluded.
Councillor Tony Fife said he didn't have anything against the conservatory as such but added: "If we have a conservation area, it has to be treated as such," he added.
He finished off by suggesting the restaurant should come back with a suggestion of a different and more suitable material.
The vote finished 8-1 in favour of the application being refused. A decision on whether to issue an enforcement notice will be taken by the council's Area East Committee.