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Major homes plan submitted
MAJOR PLANS have been lodged to create 2,750 muchneeded new homes, community facilities and business space near Lutterworth. The 550-acre development on land east of the town – including around 1,000 affordable homes, over 100 hectares of green space and two new primary schools – would generate 2,500 jobs, and is in line with Harborough District Council’s emerging Local Plan. Leicestershire County Council is behind the proposal and has now submitted a planning application to Harborough District Council. The scheme – which would also generate millions of pounds for the county council to invest in frontline services - features: • Swift Valley Community Park, playing fields, allotments, woodland, trees and hedgerows and new ecological habitats • Foot and cycle paths – connecting with Lutterworth town centre, boosting walking and cycling • 23 hectares of retail and business space - creating 2,500 jobs • Two new primary schools - and extra secondary school places • Roads and transport - improvements to main roads and M1 to boost capacity, a new M1 bridge, a new spine road to reduce town centre traffic plus new bus routes • A community hub - with shops, restaurants, cafes, health centre and community hall • Ultra-fast broadband at each property
City council-owned housing company’s first homes get go ahead PLANNING permission has been granted for the first council homes to be built by a new city council-owned housing company. Housing Leicester Ltd is set to begin work on creating 29 new homes across six sites in the city in the first phase of a major new affordable house-building project. The city council’s newly created housing company has been set up to provide new housing at sites across the city over the next few years. In all, more than 300 new council homes are planned. Planning permission has been granted for three of the initial sites – Ambassador Road in Crown Hills, Brocklesby Way in Netherhall, and nearby Maplin Road. Ambassador Road is the first site where work is due to get underway on two semi-detached homes and one detached house. Work is due to begin there this summer. At Brocklesby Way, one detached house is planned, along with one wheelchair-accessible bungalow, while two new bungalows are planned for the Maplin Road site. Three more schemes are also awaiting planning decisions, including proposals for five detached bungalows at Rosshill Crescent, Thurnby Lodge, one of which will be designed to be accessible by people with disabilities, 12 new homes in six semi-detached pairs at Felstead Road in Beaumont Leys, while in Selby Avenue, Humberstone, five new homes including two pairs of semi-detached houses and one detached house are planned. A contractor for all six of the first phase sites is due to be announced in the coming weeks. Houses built in this phase should be completed by April 2020. Work is also taking place this spring on identifying sites for a planned second phase of building, which will bring the total investment to about £48million and create 320 new homes.
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