50-home plan in Hipperholme moves a step forward

Housing developer Taylor Wimpey is looking for consent for all the remaining reserved matters of its proposals.

In February 2018 outline planning permission was granted for up to 50 dwellings on the land south of Brookelands. This confirms the principle of housing development of this scale and the means of access off Brighouse Road.

The development would see houses with two, three and four bedrooms, an equipped play area and landscaping.

Taylor Wimpey has now submitted plans that will outline the scale, appearance, layout and landscaping of the site.

The developer is also looking to develop another 41 houses neighbouring the site.

According to its dedicated site on the development, Taylor Wimpey said: “Both applications are intended to complement each other and provide for a joined-up approach to development of these two adjoining sites.

“A single access from Brighouse Road which is already approved will serve all the dwellings. But a right turn lane and pedestrian islands will be formed to assist both vehicular and pedestrian movement.

“The traffic and air quality implications of our proposals for site one (50 houses) were approved as part of the outline planning permission and therefore they do not need to be re-visited as part of the reserved matters application, which will instead focus on detailed design.

"Our full application for site two (41 houses) will include transport and air quality reports to consider potential impacts at the Hipperholme crossroads.

“However, it is noteworthy that as part of the Local Plan process the council considered these issues before deciding to allocate the site for housing, and this included use of a traffic modelling exercise. This indicates that the Local Planning Authority is satisfied that development can take place on site two without significant adverse impacts on traffic and air quality.”

The developer said existing education infrastructure was considered as part of the outline application for site one and considered suitable for that development. The council will consider capacity in existing schools once the application for site two is submitted.