Developers say plans to build 109 new homes in Fradley will help meet the “growing demand” in the area.
Vistry Group – which owns Bovis Homes – has applied for planning permission for an 11-acre site off Horner Avenue.
The proposals include 65 houses for private sale and 44 earmarked as affordable properties for rent or shared ownership.
The scheme will also include public open space and a children’s play area.
Freya Halsall, marketing assistant for Vistry Mercia, said:
“We have planned the new homes off Horner Avenue to help meet the housing needs of local people and the growing demand for new homes in the area.
“Detailed plans have been submitted to Lichfield District Council and we hope to work with the local authority to create a development that will bring many benefits to Fradley.
“The development has been sensitively designed to try to integrate the new neighbourhood into the local landscape.
“Existing trees and hedgerows will be retained wherever possible and an area of public open space at the entrance of the site sets the tone and character of the development with green credentials at its heart.
“We’ll also be including hedgehog highways in our fencing to allow wildlife to roam freely at night, finding food and shelter.”
Freya Halsall
Vistry aims to build two, three and four-bedroom houses for private sale, and one, two and three-bedroom affordable properties, with a mix of apartments and houses.
“There will be a variety of new homes for purchasers at different stages of the property ladder, including first-time buyers, growing families looking for more space and downsizers.
“This will be a sustainable development which will feature a public footpath linking the site internally but also providing a link to Fradley South and the Stirling Centre.
“We hope our plans are approved in due course so we can begin construction work on site and forge ahead with delivering these much-needed new homes in Fradley.”
Freya Halsall
If the scheme is given the go ahead, the company hopes to begin work in September with the first residents expected to move in early next year.
Full details of the scheme are available on Lichfield District Council’s planning website.
The access to this development is completely unsuitable, hence it has already been rejected once. To allow this development to proceed is very dangerous. We need LDC’s planning committee to stand firm and reject it again as nothing material has changed.
Plus, the open space is insufficient and steals public open space from a previous development to try and demonstrate compliance, which is totally unacceptable.
Finally, this land is allocated for commercial, not residential, development in the Local Plan. We need jobs for all the new developments that are already springing up everywhere around Lichfield and in particular Fradley.
This needs rejecting again, in spite of the usual baseless waffle from the developer’s marketing team!
Do not be fooled into thinking that this is a normal development proposal by the developer, because it isn’t, not by a far stretch.
There are many, many key issues relating to this development as to why it should be turned down. One of the Key issues here is safety especially the access into and out of Horner Avenue which compromise highways and residents’ safety. It also affects Common Lane, Rogerson Road, Ward Close.
In order for the developers to come through HORNER AVENUE and all traffic from the development, major geometry changes will need to be made to the existing architecture of the road to accommodate the extra traffic which the housing development would create on a permanent basis. In order for this to be complaint and meet SCC Highways safety as out laid via the government framework. This means that the entrance to Horner Avenue will have to have the road widened which affects house both sides of the road. The Tee Junction and all apex bends opposite No 5 Horner Avenue including the bottom of the cul-de-sac will have to be significantly be changed by widening the road and footpaths widened. In essence they will have to Knock Down the resident’s house N05 and also No 52 to widen & change the geometry of the street! SCC Highways have also carried out their highways safety report which also highlights the same findings as the independent Consultants highways safety report. The developer refuses to acknowledge these major changes and has had every opportunity to address them which they haven’t, but thinks that they can strong arm the residents and local councils into submission.
This AGAIN doesn’t meet High Way safety standards