30 homes planned for town’s outskirts
PLANS for 30 houses have been submitted for land on the outskirts of a Derbyshire town.
The application, submitted by Mr K Whitmore, would see 30 houses built off Belper Road, Ashbourne, near the former airfield site.
The proposed site is used for cattle, bordered by Mill Lane, several farms and a number of bungalows and new-build homes.
Derbyshire Dales District Council will make a decision on the application in the next few months.
A document from Planning Design details: “The aim is to create an attractive, outward looking development which addresses Belper Road and areas of open space within the site, hiding driveways, cars, and private gardens to the rear, thus ensuring an attractive gateway to the town.”
Entrance to the site would be off Belper Road, opposite a farm. A wildflower meadow area in the south-east corner of the site, bordering Mill Lane, would be retained. The document says this meadow should help provide a protective buffer for a nearby Grade-II listed farmhouse and the non-designated heritage asset Sturston Cottage.
All the trees and hedgerows would be retained, apart from a break in Belper Road to form the access and one dead hawthorn tree would be removed. Nine would be classed as “affordable”.
The document, on behalf of the applicant, says: “The site is sustainably located on the edge of an existing first-tier settlement, and the council is unable to currently demonstrate a deliverable housing land supply of five years. The provision of open space and planting within and around the site would be able to mitigate some of this impact, particularly over time as the planting matures.
“As such, the site can accommodate a sensitively designed housing development without any significant adverse landscape or visual impacts.
“The provision of nine affordable dwellings would be a significant benefit both for the town and the district as a whole, helping to meet the needs of local people.”