A renewed application has been made for 81 homes in Kirton-in-Lindsey.
The local NHS has requested funding to cope with the extra patients at the local GP, which is “already under pressure” because of space limitations. Outline approval was given to the development on land off Ings Road in early 2021, on planning appeal.
Permission was previously then sought for site specifics, including the layout and design, by Newett Homes Ltd. Now, a different group has taken over achieving the project’s fruition.
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The Strategic Land Group have made the fresh site specifics, or reserved matters, application. The Manchester-based property investment company state in a cover letter they have filed the documents on behalf of three individuals, Stephen Nicholson, Kerrie Waters and Rachael Schofield.
The fresh application is to keep the outline permission alive. Approval for site specifics has to be achieved within three years of the granting of initial approval.
The 81 homes will comprise 43 two-beds, of which 36 are semi-detached. There would also be 31 three-bed and seven four-bed homes.
Twenty per cent of the homes, 17, will be assigned for affordable housing. These will be indistinguishable from the market housing, being built with the same materials at the 2.2 hectare site.
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The development will include public open space and within that, a kids’ play area. A document details this will include a small see-saw, jumping discs, a little wooden chicken to ride on and a combination of hut and slide.
Citycare have requested on behalf of NHS North Lincolnshire Health Care Partnership for S106 funding linked to the project. In its comment, it states: “The nearby surgery – Kirton Lindsey and Scotter Surgery is already under pressure due to limitations with space. Therefore, any increase in new housing is likely to impact requests for new patient registrations, potentially increasing the list size and demand for clinical services.”
S106 funding of £70,000 is requested, to “potentially increase space for the delivery of primary care services and wider community services, which will benefit local patients”.
The original outline permission for the 81 homes was refused by North Lincolnshire Council, because of highways concerns with Ings Road, and as it was outside the town’s development boundary. The planning inspectorate dismissed these at appeal and found the council had behaved unreasonably, refusing on “on vague and generalised assertions about the proposal’s impact”. Consequently, the council was also ordered to pay the full costs of appeal to then applicants, Newett Homes Ltd.
Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe