PLANS to build new homes on land in Lichfield have been submitted for the third time in as many years.
The plot at The Rosaries off Trent Valley Road saw applications rejected in 2022 and 2023.
But a new attempt is being launched with a scheme which would also see an existing property demolished along with the construction of ten new homes.
A planning statement said:
“The application site comprises a detached dwelling, known as The Rosaries, and a series of outbuildings. The buildings are all located to the western end of the site.
“The remaining land to the east of the buildings is open grassland. A Tree Protection Order is in place on the land, with those protected trees towards the western end of the site close to the existing dwelling.
“The proposed development would see the existing dwelling and outbuildings demolished and the site cleared.
“The site is proposed to be developed by way of ten dwellings. The new homes will be accessed via a new vehicular access that emerges on to the eastern side of St Michael’s Road.”
The new homes will see a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom properties.
The report added:
“The proposal is an architect-led, bespoke scheme with the dwellings and space around them individually designed to reflect the unique opportunity the site offers by being one of the few remaining pockets of space available for housing so close to the city centre.”
Full details can be seen on Lichfield District Council’s planning website.
This should be headline making news in the world’s media and a genuine stop press moment of humungus proportions to beat them all- a developer has actually found a piece of land in Lichfield that hasn’t been built on! It’s just too unbelievable to be true!
It has been proved categorically that open, green spaces are essential for our physical and mental health. This should be a guiding consideration for all building applications.
As the application states ‘ this is one of a few remaining pockets’ of open space. Why the third attempt to remove it for all time ? The decision has already been made the council should declare this as ‘previous business’.
No more houses please!
Lichfield is losing everything that made it what it was -key word being ‘was’. There is soon to be a housing estate on Cricket Lane, once farmland.
There’s insufficient infrastructure of all types to support the existing , yet still expanding population.
The selling of farmland will only get more likely following the reckless budget IHT changes, the fields will be built on, farming will become a mere memory for this country along with the rest of industrial manufacturing from bygone times only this time the fields cannot be reclaimed once gone. We’ll be importing food from abroad leaving ourselves wide open to other countries’ whim to deliver or not, holding us to ransom, high charges, substandard goods & all because the councils of this land (as a whole) want to build houses that first time buyers can never afford to buy or barely rent. So, NO, don’t build 10 houses on ‘a pocket of land’ that has already been denied twice.