Building could start next year
HOUSES in the Garendon housing development could start to be built next year according to the managing director of William Davis Homes.
Guy Higgins told the Echo that complex details of the section 106 agreement has meant that it has taken longer than expected, but that this is now in a position to be signed off and that houses could be going up as soon as next year.
Mr Higgins said: “Sites of this nature are immensely complicated, not only from a technical point of view but also the attendant services and legal work.”
HOUSES in the Garendon housing development could start to be built next year according to the managing director of William Davis Homes.
Guy Higgins told the Echo that complex details of the section 106 agreement has meant that it has taken longer than expected, but that this is now in a position to be signed off and that houses could be going up as soon as next year.
Mr Higgins said: “Sites of this nature are immensely complicated, not only from a technical point of view but also the attendant services and legal work.
“The site also requires major infrastructure investment which has meant dealing with many authorities as well as the Heritage England aspect for the registered parkland.
“The Section 106 Agreement which deals with the impacts from the development, including the phasing of this long-term development has to be addressed, this is highly complex and has taken time but we are now in a position to get this signed off.”
Speaking to the Echo following Chancellor Philip Hammond’s focus on building new homes in last week’s budget he said that there is much to be positive about, and that William Davis is planning to build more homes than ever before.
He said that the long-awaited Garendon Park development a partnership with Persimmon North Midlands has outline planning consent for 3,200 homes, and is getting closer, and work could start some time in 2018.
The planning application for Garendon Park was submitted by William Davis Ltd and Persimmon Homes North Midlands in September 2014, and was approved 12 months later.
It has now been nearly two years since the application was initially approved and building work hasn’t begun.
The William Davis managing director said that the first phase of the development will take place on land accessed from the A6 north of Loughborough and will eventually join through to the A512 Ashby Road.
The scheme will include two primary schools, a community hall, shops and open space, plus the restoration of historical buildings including the Temple of Venus and the Triumphal Arch that are currently on the estate.
All sizes and types of houses will be provided and 25 per cent of the homes will be affordable for rent or shared ownership and the development will also include 39.5 acres of employment land.
It also includes the opening up of the historic parkland to the public.
Speaking of other developments in the Loughborough area he said that work has commenced on Buttercup Fields in Shepshed, with a first phase of 120 homes and further phases to follow.
Grange Park in Loughborough currently has two new phases underway which will total 156 new homes to be completed in 2019.
And at Rothley, work is well underway on a second phase of 205 homes, and the site at Hathern was recently completed.