A DEVELOPER has taken steps towards a formal application for plans to build 500 new homes on land in Streethay.
Bloor Homes has made a screening opinion submission to determine whether the proposals should be subject to an Environmental Impact Assessment.
The land is to the north of the Roman Heights development in Streethay on a plot adjacent to the HS2 line which is currently under construction.
A planning statement said the developer hoped to put together a formal application in the near future.
“Bloor Homes intends to submit an outline planning application for the residential development of up to 500 dwellings in the coming months.
“As such, a public consultation will shortly be undertaken in relation to the proposals, to allow the public to input into the proposals.”
The land is currently a field with a farm access track with a public right of way running along part of the boundary.
The planning statement added:
“The site is well located with access into the existing residential development which includes play, recreation and open space and a well-appointed local centre with uses including a cafe-bar, Co-op retail store and a primary school.
“In terms of sustainable travel, Lichfield Trent Valley railway station is located within a five minute drive and 20 minute walk from the boundary of the site and there are bus routes within the area providing access into the larger settlements of Lichfield and Burton-upon-Trent.
“The site itself does not have any relevant planning history and has been used as an agricultural field.
The Masterplan proposes new vehicular and pedestrian access onto Thompson Way, with a secondary access through to Faraday Road.
“It also incorporates new pedestrian and cycle routes through to the existing residential development and further approved residential development southwest of the site to ensure cohesiveness and integration with the strategic development area.
“It also maintains the existing public right of way along the northern and western boundary of the site.”
Full details can be seen on Lichfield District Council’s planning website.
Yeh because what Lichfield really needs is more homes !!
Please tell me it’s April fool’s day? !!!
Enough is Enough.
Lichfield has built more than its fair share of houses, our SINGLE GP surgery, road network and parking simply cannot cope anymore. It’s always houses first, infrastructure upgrades last 😡.
Two hundred and eighty at Fradley. Two hundred approved at Streethay and a proposed further Five Hundred. All on the north side and similar situation starting on the south side. All to be served by a coop and a primery school? Well why not? Lichfield is finished anyway. It has already entered a self destruction spiral. It is probably past saving.
Well you just cant make it up can you. Why is this proposal even up for scrutiny ? What cant these people see what everybody else can. Lets spell it out then NO MORE HOMES. Without firstly building a doctors surgery that works and people can get to see a real person as apposed to the new breed of virtual reality doctors we have now. More homes just spells even greater problems for Lichfield than we have now. Closed and worn out roads, increased traffic, longer travel delays. The conservatives were mad but this new lot are just off their trolley, Unbelievable!!
Yes, I think it must be April Fool’s day. Who is going to want to buy a house there, with all the roadworks problems and right next to HS2? The developers are having a laugh now.
Our elected members are slowly eroding everything good about Lichfield until it becomes another typical over densified town/city…great future for our families….well done LDC….more revenue at the cost of our beautiful city
Wow, they’re seriously proposing this
A farmer selling some land by chance? I thought they wanted to grow food for Britain or reducing the inheritance tax liability!
We real do need more houses our families need homes near us it also rings more money for h cit
Yes and don’t forget the 520 new houses on cricket lane too 😳
Don’t forget the 2900 houses in curborough on top of the ones already being built by redrow. Crazy. Say goodbye to our nice quiet safe little city.
This land is also easily flooded. Recently the middle of this field was under water for a month!
No brownfield sites available?
Trains and buses , my b######e !!!! No , doctors , no dentist , one shop and more importantly one road in and one road out , that is dug up every other week !!!!
Welcome to Lichfield soon to be twinned with Milton Keynes.
The primary school doesn’t serve the existing houses, never mind 500 more! Maybe try again and develop a new GP, hospital, dentist & school to meet the needs of the existing community.
The joining of Lichfield to Fradley
Another year of road closures, more strain on the public services because the housing is going up like lego. Whose approving this endless building. Improve the terrible doctors that can’t cope already. The bulging schools it’s beyond ridiculous!
Houses on Faraday Road will go from being located in a quiet cul de sac on the edge of the estate into being on a busy new thoroughfare into the proposed new estate. For all living on Faraday Road, this is wholly unacceptable.