Nov/Dec 2019
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Crest lays foundations of first homes at Harry Stoke
Photo credit: Steve Pitts
H
ousebuilder Crest Nicholson has wasted no time in getting started on its new 763-home Brooklands Park development in Harry Stoke, with foundations for the first properties going in just weeks after final planning permission was granted on 19th September. As previously reported, work on constructing a new eastwest link road across the site, already approved under outline permission granted in 2007, started in earnest this July. Two-way temporary traffic lights have been in operation on Westfield Lane since August to facilitate the tying-in of the new link road and the installation of water, gas and electric feeds for the new development. The Brooklands Park site extends all the way down to the A4174 Ring Road (near UWE). The current activity is focussed on the northern section where 284 homes are planned. This will be followed by the central section (206 homes). The southern section (beyond
the right edge of the photo above) will then follow, but only after the two high voltage powerlines which cross this area have been undergrounded.
Aerial image recorded on 27th October, looking south-east from Westfield Lane (near The Aviva Centre). The existing Highbrook park development of 163 homes can be seen top left. The new road linking Highfield Park with Westfield Lane runs diagonally to the bottom right of the image. Also visible to the left of this is a new estate road leading to the location of the first foundations.
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