We’re pleased to have achieved outline planning consent for two landscape-led planning applications in the Coventry village of Keresley.
Up to 550 new homes are set to be delivered, including 25 per cent affordable housing, along with pedestrian/cycle access, highway improvements including part of the Keresley Link Road, parking, landscaping, drainage features, open space and play areas.
Totalling 58.5 acres, the sites are west of Bennetts Road around 4.5 miles north of Coventry city centre. Transport links and amenities, including the major employment site Prologis Park Coventry, are within comfortable walking distance.
The plans form part of the Keresley Village Sustainable Urban Extension, a residential-led allocation within the adopted Coventry City Local Plan for up to 3100 new homes, new education facilities, 2 local centres and accompanying green, blue and highway infrastructure.
Keresley planning permission 1
Outline approval has been granted for up to 260 new homes and the creation of vehicular access to Bennetts Road.
Keresley planning permission 2
Outline approval has been granted for up to 290 new homes and vehicular access to Bennetts Road and Fivefield Road.
Marc Wilson, regional director at Richborough Estates, said: “We carried out extensive consultation with residents and the various stakeholders and are delighted to have achieved permission to deliver these much-needed new homes.
“Congratulations and thanks to our landowner The Queen’s College, Oxford, their agents Grant Westall Reece, Freddy Shrieve and Simon Mills at Bidwells as well as our legal advisors and consultants.”
The site project team included: IDP Planning, Marrons Planning, Annabelle Langhorn Landscape Planning, Ecolocation, Wharton Natural Infrastructure Consultants, Hub Transport Planning, M-EC, Pegasus and Holt Property.
For more details please contact Marc Wilson: marc@richborough.co.uk