Wakefield faces 550-home agenda
Three proposals are all recommended for approval at October’s planning committee meeting, with Barratt David Wilson and Avant Homes among the hopeful applicants.
Banks Property (planning reference: 23/01934/OUT)
Land promoter Banks is seeking consent for 260 homes on land east of Wakefield Road, Hemsworth, a project that will also include parking for users of Vale Head Park.
Banks’ professional team includes JRP, Avison Young, Wardell Armstrong, Miller Goodall, and Portland Consulting
The site is north of Hemsworth’s town centre, and has been removed from the Green Belt as part of the Local Plan adoption process. The park is north of the site, with established housing at Springvale Rise to the south.
Outline approval is sought for a project with an area of open space at its centre, and a green corridor running across the site
Around 250 objections have been lodged, with 20 letters of support. Three councillors and MP John Trickett have also registered their concerns.
The plans are recommended for approval, with the Section 106 agreement proposed as adding up to around £380,000, including £135,000 for sustainable transport.
Barratt David Wilson (planning reference 22/01265/FUL)
The second proposal to go before committee comes from Barratt David Wilson, advised by PB Planning and Sten Architecture.
Full permission is sought for 211 homes in southern Pontefract, on land between Ackworth Road and Hardwick Road, a pair of A-roads. The 18.7-acre site is currently agricultural and will have a spine road built through it, mostly along the southern boundary.
An open space at the centre of the project will link to open space north of the site. The project is effectively an expansion of a 204-home development delivered by BDW following a 2013 consent.
David Wilson house types are proposed for the west, and Barratt Homes house types to the east. Market housing is to comprise 148 two, three and four bed dwellings that are largely detached and interspersed with some semi-detached units. Two of these homes will be bungalows.
Affordable housing at the project will amount to 63 one, two, three and four-bed homes designed as a mixture of short row terraces, semi-detached and detached units. The provision includes four bungalows.
Of the scheme’s total, two are one-bed, 46 homes are two-bed, 86 homes are three-bed and 77 four-bed
Five plots at the centre of the site are identified as custom/self-build.
Objections have been made by one ward councillor, and 187 objections have been logged from the public, although officers not some correspondents have raised their concerns more than once.
Avant Homes (planning reference 23/01849/FUL)
The third major application on the October agenda, comes from Avant.
The housebuilder proposes 83 homes on the western edge of Normanton, part of the same housing allocation where Taylor Wimpey is taking forward its 400-home Altofts Hall Farm project, which committee considered in July amid another bumper housing docket, resolving to approve the proposals.
Avant submitted its £20m proposals in January, for a scheme billed as Altofts Acres. Off Wharfedale Drive, it comprises homes of one to four bedrooms, including bungalows. Eight homes will be affordable.
In total, 152 objections have been made, including from a councillor, on traffic grounds, and from Normanton Town Council.
