Plans for 165 homes in Burbage
Estate would include up to 33 affordable homes, if approved YOUTHS SAID TO BE PULLING WHEELIES IN FRONT OF CARS
AN estate of 165 homes could be built on a main road between Burbage and the M69.
The complex, on Lutterworth Road, will include up to 33 affordable homes, with the site to extend right up to the motorway.
Vehicles would access the 8.92 hectare site via a T-junction on Lutterworth Road, at the northern end of the site.
The size of the scheme was reduced from 170 homes in light of feedback from the community, after a pre-application meeting held by developer Davidsons and Burbage Parish Council.
Leaflets were distributed in the area and the responses included 109 objections and just one in favour of the scheme.
A design statement filed with the plans said the scheme would include “a range and mix of family house types sizes and tenures which offer flexibility and choice, creating a balanced and integrated community”.
Another estate of 72 homes has been built on the opposite side of Lutterworth Road, by developer Redrow, with most of the properties now occupied.
Plans were filed in September 2019 for an estate of 140 homes and a large area of industrial units in Burbage, between the A5 and Sketchley Grange Hotel.
The housing complex would be accessed from a new junction off Sketchley Lane while the commercial project would be accessed via Watling Drive, which is a short drive from the A5.
Affordable housing would make up 20 per cent of the homes, with 32 per cent to be medium and larger family units, 64 per cent to be smaller and medium sized units, and 4 per cent to be multi-person housing and flats.
Burbage Parish Council unanimously objected to the plans, saying it would cause too much extra traffic and would ruin the beauty of the surrounding countryside.
Four written responses were received by the authority objecting to the proposal, including one from councillor Mike Hall.