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New planning rules to get England delivering homes MAXIMISING the use of land, strengthened protections for the Green Belt, and a greater emphasis on converting planning permissions into homes are at the heart of new planning reforms, launched by the Prime Minister to deliver the homes the country needs. The government delivered more than a million homes since 2010, and last year saw the biggest increase in housing supply in England – over 217,000 new homes – for almost a decade. Although progress has been made, more planning permissions need to be fast tracked into homes for a generation of first time buyers locked out of the housing market and the increasing older generation need the right homes designed to their needs. A major overhaul to the National Planning Policy Framework has been launched, providing a comprehensive approach for planners, developers and councils to build more homes, more quickly, in the places people want to live. Councils and developers will now be required to work with community groups to ensure those affected by new developments will have a say on how
RG+P APPOINTED ON LANDMARK ASHTON GREEN DEVELOPMENT LEICESTER-BASED architectural practice, rg+p has been appointed in a multidisciplinary capacity on the city’s major new sustainable urban extension scheme, Ashton Green. The firm has been retained as architects, master planners, urban designers, planning consultants and landscape architects on phase two of the project, which will deliver 305 residential dwellings. Rg+p will work alongside Leicester City Council and developer, Kier Living to deliver the Drawing of how some of the new homes at Ashton Green might sit alongside the development’s £85m scheme. extensive open green space. TURN TO PAGE 6 ...>
SITE FOR UP TO 8 DWELLINGS IN OLD DALBY ANDREW GRANGER & CO are offering for sale 1.567 acres of residential development land situated to the north of Longcliff Hill, Old Dalby, Leicestershire. The land comprises part of a single field of pasture land, and is enclosed by well-established mature hedgerows A Minded to Approve has been granted, subject to the completion of a Section 106 Agreement, for the erection of up to 8 dwellings. Offers in the region of £950,000 are invited for the whole. For more information, contact Chris Green at Andrew Granger & Co on 01858 439090 or email: chris.green@andrewgranger.co.uk
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