Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
£450M NORTH WEST HOUSING PLAN HOPE
3,000 homes to be built in Derry
PLANS have been unveiled for the largest housing development in Northern Ireland in the past decade.
The £450million project in Derry will feature a new state-of-the-art school, thousands of homes and a community centre.
The site, which is to be known as The Cashel, will be located West of Buncrana Road between Whitehouse Road and Benview Estate in Coshquin.
The project is expected to deliver more than 3,000 new social, affordable, and private homes, and create a new urban village.
Private and social house builder The Braidwater Group says “sustainability will be key to the project” with a high street and central park at the heart of the scheme providing a hub for residents.
The development will also deliver new community buildings, retail and convenience facilities and cycle lanes linking Derry with Buncrana.
The routes incorporated into the plans will be in line with the “North-west Greenway” passing near the proposed site. More than 250 construction jobs and apprenticeships are expected to be created.
The developer says phase one will see an initial investment of over £100million to deliver a mix of 800 social, private and affordable houses, with major infrastructure also to be put in place for the wider site.
The consultation process for the urban village will begin in the weeks ahead, with detailed plans to be submitted to Derr y City and Straban e Di strict Council before the end of the year.
The Braidwater Group director Vincent Bradley said: “The fact that this will represent an extension to our home city of Derry and that it will address an area of high housing demand makes us even more ambitious to deliver it.
“As with all of our projects, we are bringing forward plans which encourage people who live on the site to live well, with all aspects of lifestyle catered for in a high quality and well thought out way.
“The development will be a new, well connected community, and we will be making a contribution of £1.5million to build i n public transport linkages.
“We will also be contribu t i n g o v e r £ 7 mi l l i o n into th e wi d e r roads network and realigning the Coshquin and Whitehouse Road in a sensitive way.”
We’ll also contribute £7m into wider road network VINCENT BRADLEY DERRY YESTERDAY