The former Hepworth Building Products site. Pic: Google Streetview

A former industrial site in Lichfield could be transformed if plans for 99 new homes are approved.

The land off Eastern Avenue was previously home to Hepworth Building Products.

The former Hepworth Building Products site. Pic: Google Streetview
The former Hepworth Building Products site. Pic: Google Streetview

A previous plan to build 77 homes on the site had been approved by the Government’s Planning Inspectorate after being blocked by Lichfield District Council.

But developers now hope to get permission for an additional 22 properties.

Access to the new properties would be on Watery Lane.

The plans would see a mix of two and three bedroom houses along with one four bed property. There would also be 13 one bedroom apartments.

Nineteen are currently being designated as “affordable rented units” while 35 properties will be available under a shared ownership scheme.

Full details of the proposals can be seen on Lichfield District Council’s plannning website.

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Thornton
7 years ago

Please, pleease, please can they be of good quality and of similar design to Darwin rather than the usual rubbish which seems to be thrown together in neighbouring towns?

AgitatorofPeople
7 years ago

Maybe even turn back the clock to previous planning consideration and give them more space, with gardens, green space and well thought out parking provision, somewhere you can actually “live”.

Darryl
7 years ago

This site is very close to the existing high speed railway line and the proposed HS2, should it go ahead.

Thornton
7 years ago

Yes it should i think as there are plebty if houses already built on the eastern edge.

Cearbhaill
7 years ago

Sure to be thrown up with breeze block and plaster-board and a light skim that will weather, crack and crumble within a few years along with a good for nothing ‘postage stamp’ of a garden. Cramming as many people into the least space is a sure sign of the times.

What
7 years ago

@cearbhaill agree with all you said. You missed out roads and public spaces, done to such a poor standard. The council refuse to adopt it. The developers refuse to make it up to standard.

So it is left unadopted and all the residents face a bill for any road repairs and if they try and sell, a number of mortgage lenders refuse to give mortgages to unadopted areas.

Mat
7 years ago

Can they be carbon neutral. Built with solar panels, triple insulation with electric car ports? Lets get ahead of the old nonsense.

John the Barber
7 years ago

id like to see pink prefabs with a tiny back garden and grass trails for roads – lets not get too uptight over what we cant influence