Developers scope out plans for 375 houses next to A38
SCHEME WOULD INCLUDE NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL BUT NO COMMUNITY FACILITIES
DEVELOPERS are planning to build nearly 400 homes and a new primary school on the outskirts of Littleover, next to the A38.
The plans, for land to the west of Rykneld Road, have been submitted to Derby City Council by developers William Davis Homes, Miller Homes and Miller Gadsby Heatherton Limited.
Their submission is not a formal application but an early pitch to the council – called an environmental impact assessment scoping request – aimed at getting initial thoughts on the potential development, its design and whether the impact on the area would be acceptable or not on the information provided.
City council officers will decide on whether initial ideas to avoid a significant adverse impact from the scheme are sufficient.
This would include potential new traffic lights or roundabouts, pedestrian crossings, avoidance of pollution into water sources, open space and trees and sufficient parking.
The application shows plans for 375 homes on fields between Rykneld Road, Havenbaulk Park and the A38, stretching down towards the
Taylor Wimpey development Highfields Farm.
The main access to the proposed site would be off Burghley way, with a pedestrian route onto the site being constructed opposite The Hollybrook pub.
If approved, the plans would see a new primary school built at the north of the site, bordering Pendleside Way. A school field would be formed from land adjacent to Havenbaulk Park.
The firms say the site covers 45 acres and would be considered an urban development.
It notes that the site was earmarked in the city council’s local plan in 2006 and again in 2017, along with homes to the east of Rykneld Road, which has already become a housing development and also has a primary school.
The two sites together would total 900 homes.
Plans submitted by the developers say the homes would be two storeys high and range from two bedrooms at up to five bedrooms. The firms say a proportion of the homes will be affordable housing but have not specified what amount.
There would not be any shops or other community facilities on site, unlike the adjacent Highfields Farm development.
The firms say: “The council has previously determined that the scale of development that would come forward from the combination of the application site and the other allocated land east of Rykneld Road would not be of such an extent to generate significant adverse environmental impacts.
“That is not to say that there will not be an environmental impact caused by the development.
“Given the site characteristics, lack of designation of environmentally sensitive area or features on the site and its allocation for development, the initial conclusion the applicant’s team are making is that any environmental impact will not be significantly adverse.”