By Lauren Monaghan, Junior Local Democracy Reporter
Plans to build 42 new homes in a Nottinghamshire village have now been approved after renewed plans were submitted almost a year ago.
Rushcliffe Borough Council have accepted the development by Redrow, which will be located on land to the south of Butt Lane in the rural village of East Bridgford.
Outline planning permission was already granted to the developers to use the site for residential purposes in 2020, with the first plans initially proposing 59 homes.
But an application in March 2023 for permission for reserved matters, such as the appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the 59 houses, was rejected over concerns by the council that the site was too cramped.
Following this, an updated application with the reduced number of 42 homes was submitted in September 2023, allowing for garden sizes across the homes to be increased.
While garden sizes will vary across the different houses, all of them remain over 10 metres in depth.
The proposed layout of the site stipulates that the developers will also extend the car park of the existing Medical Centre near the site which would create 22 additional spaces and a landscape buffer to separate the centre and new housing development.
Of the 42 homes, planning documents state that 13 of them will come under the affordable homes classification, with three falling under social rent, four being affordable rent, two homes being intermediate and four being classified as first homes.
As the new development will lay in a rural part of Nottinghamshire, some resident objections were regarding the loss of green space and the pressure the site could put on trees in Millenium Woods.
However, in planning documents, Redrow said: “The provision of an area of significant open space on the eastern edge of the development that will assist with the transition between open countryside and the new built-up edge of the settlement.”
This will include an ecological feature on site, a play area and the planting of numerous trees on the development’s eastern boundary.
