development finance

Residents in a Chelmsford village have criticised property developers after they relaunched an application to build more than 100 homes and expand a primary school. Bellway Homes has submitted new plans to build on a greenbelt site at the bottom of Aragon Road in Great Leighs. The application also outlines proposals to expand Great Leighs Primary School […]

Plans to start building 500 new homes at Connaught Barracks in Dover have been boosted, with work expected to begin this year. Connaught Barracks is a former Ministry of Defence site of 55 hectares acquired by the Homes and Community Agency, now known as Homes England, in 2008. With a Land Trust owned Napoleonic fort Fort Burgoyne at its […]

A decision on plans to build 600 homes in Shrewsbury has been put off for a second time over issues with access. Members of Shropshire Council’s central planning committee deferred the plans from Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon Homes to build the development at Weir Hill, at a meeting yesterday. Objectors to the proposed housing development […]

Up to 59 homes could be built on three vacant sites across a Nottinghamshire town. If plans are given the go-ahead by Mansfield District Council’s planning committee, homes could be built on Westfield Lane, Colston Road and Sherwood Close. Three separate planning applications were submitted to the council this month for a mix of houses, apartments and bungalows. All […]

Funding for a multi-million pound bridge that will support the development of hundreds of new homes has been approved. The new pedestrian and cycle access overpass will be installed over the A46, connecting the former RAF Newton site – where 550 new homes are proposed – with a plot of land also proposed for new […]

A former pub site and a row of shops with flats could be turned into 20 new homes, plans have revealed. The former Harvester site off Old Farm Road and a row of shops and flats in Knights Close, Top Valley, could make way for a mixture of houses and houses. A document submitted to […]

Developers have revealed plan to build 970 new houses and a primary school on the edge of York. National housebuilder Redrow has drawn up proposals for the north east of the city, near Huntington, on a site bounded by Monks Cross Link Road to the east and North Lane to the north. The development would […]

Ambitious new plans could see 1,700 new homes brought to Birmingham’s Southside district. Manchester property group MCR has submitted a £275 million urban village scheme to council planners that would see more than 1,000 new homes on the vacant Monaco House site on Bristol Street. Meanwhile housebuilder Barratt Homes is proposing 778 new apartments and […]

Plans have been put forward to demolish a house in Telford to make way for more than 80 new homes. Shropshire Homes want to knock down the home in Wellington Road, Muxton, to build the estate of 85 homes, which will include affordable housing. It would form part of a huge development of 665 homes […]

Larry Elliott suggests five steps to fix the housing market (Britain’s broken housing market – and how to fix it, 9 October) which include Kate Barker’s idea of “acquiring” large sites abutting urban areas at a modest premium to their existing use. That would effectively part-nationalise development value and might help supply, although the Tories wouldn’t […]

Shropshire Council is reviewing its local plan, moving it forward by ten years. The plan is now set to be presented to cabinet on October 18. Although almost 19,000 homes are already set to be built in the county, the plan says a further 10,000 will be needed by 2036. Adrian Cooper, planning policy manager […]