Brownfield site plan to create 170 new homes
DISUSED AREA IN CITY’S WEST END SET TO BE TRANSFORMED
MORE than 170 new homes are to be built on a site in Newcastle’s West End that has been empty for around 20 years.
The scheme, by Tynexe Residential Ltd, involves building the 171 properties on Loadman Street, in Elswick, and will include a mixture of two, three and four-bedroom houses.
The site is off Westmorland Road, Beaumont Street and Wolsingham Street, and is near Elswick Park.
There used to be terraced houses in the area but they were demolished in the late 1990s and the plot of land has been vacant ever since.
Now Newcastle City Council’s planning committee has approved proposals to construct the new dwellings, as well as car parking spaces to serve the site.
The project forms the second phase of an ongoing regeneration programme in the area.
Planning officers were recommending approval of the scheme. In their report, they said: “The development would be of a sustainable form, delivering economic, social and environmental benefits to the area by delivering high-quality housing and creating employment and landscape benefits to a vacant unused site and thereby supporting the local economy and residents.”
Coun Ian Graham, who was born and bred in Scotswood, told the committee: “I’m very pleased to see this development.”
The plans were given the goahead unanimously. After the meeting, Coun Ged Bell, the council’s cabinet member for inclusive growth, said: “This is a major housing scheme for Elswick. Together with the new housing being built in Scotswood, it demonstrates that private sector confidence has returned to the West End. I remember the terraced houses that once stood on this site. It’s been a vacant brownfield site for years so it’s great to see it being brought back into use.
“Elswick Park is nearby so these two and three-bed homes will be great for families and contribute to our aims of inclusive and sustainable economic growth. It’s a winwin situation.”