Permission is granted over 50-home Burniston proposal

Scarborough Council has granted planning permission for the erection of 50 dwellings with associated open space, car parking and vehicular access in Burniston.

The major residential development will be located at a 1.8-hectare site on land to the rear of The Grange, High Street, and will comprise 50 two-storey dwellings.

The project, by Mulgrave Developments Ltd, was approved by Scarborough Council’s Planning and Development Committee at its meetingonThursdayOctober 6. No objections to the plans were raised by the Highway Authority, the county archaeologist, the flood authority, or the council’s environmental health team.

NHS North Yorkshire’s Clinical Commissioning Group “calculated that there would be an infrastructure cost of £22,577” which should be paid by the developer.

However, Burniston Parish Council objected to the plans on the grounds that highway access would be “unsuitable” while also objecting due to increased housing density in the area.

During the consultation process and at the committee meeting, concerns were also raised about the development’s provision of affordable homes.

Speaking at the meeting, Cllr Teresa Norton criticised the final number of affordable homes in the development and said it “seems to make a little bit of a mockery of our demand for better homes”.

Members of the committee voted unanimously in favour of approving the plan, subject to various additional conditions largely relating to construction and highway restrictions.