News: Plans approved for houses at Waverley Railside
The planning board at Rotherham Council has voted to approve an application for one of the remaining plots of land at the massive Waverley development in Rotherham.
At Yorkshire's largest ever brownfield mixed-use development, Harworth Group is transforming the former Orgreave coal mining site in to a new sustainable community that will comprise up to 3,890 homes, shops, restaurants, a primary school, and leisure and community facilities, including 310-acres of green open space.
177 dwellings are proposed for a plot of land known as Plot 4 or Waverley Railside.
The site is bound by Highfield Spring to the north, the Sheffield-Worksop-Lincoln railway to the south, and industrial units to the east and west (Pasuda and the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP)).
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As plans progress for housing on the site, a potential Waverley train station is also being progressed by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA). This would be potentially located next to this site on the Sheffield-Worksop-Lincoln line and be centred on the existing railway bridge which would be upgraded to provide access for all users of the potential new railway hub.
With a mix of housing sizes, from 1 bed to 4 bed, the planning board heard that 113 affordable housing units are to be provided on the site (63.8%), including five 4-bed affordable dwellings and 12 1-bed affordable dwellings.
Jane Beckett, associate director at Barton Wilmore, presented the plans to the planning board on behalf of Harworth Group. She told the board that the plans "deliver much needed affordable housing - a mix of size and tenure will all help to contribute to that affordable provision needed locally. We've tried to work with officers, not to argue about viability, to make sure we are achieving the 21% overall on site."
A number of objections were received but planners concluded that: "The proposed development adequately addresses how the development does not affect the amenity of any existing nearby residents, and that the amenity of the future residents will also be acceptable" given the location near to the road and railway line.
Waverley website
Images: Harworth / nineteen47
At Yorkshire's largest ever brownfield mixed-use development, Harworth Group is transforming the former Orgreave coal mining site in to a new sustainable community that will comprise up to 3,890 homes, shops, restaurants, a primary school, and leisure and community facilities, including 310-acres of green open space.
177 dwellings are proposed for a plot of land known as Plot 4 or Waverley Railside.
The site is bound by Highfield Spring to the north, the Sheffield-Worksop-Lincoln railway to the south, and industrial units to the east and west (Pasuda and the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP)).
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As plans progress for housing on the site, a potential Waverley train station is also being progressed by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA). This would be potentially located next to this site on the Sheffield-Worksop-Lincoln line and be centred on the existing railway bridge which would be upgraded to provide access for all users of the potential new railway hub.
With a mix of housing sizes, from 1 bed to 4 bed, the planning board heard that 113 affordable housing units are to be provided on the site (63.8%), including five 4-bed affordable dwellings and 12 1-bed affordable dwellings.
Jane Beckett, associate director at Barton Wilmore, presented the plans to the planning board on behalf of Harworth Group. She told the board that the plans "deliver much needed affordable housing - a mix of size and tenure will all help to contribute to that affordable provision needed locally. We've tried to work with officers, not to argue about viability, to make sure we are achieving the 21% overall on site."
A number of objections were received but planners concluded that: "The proposed development adequately addresses how the development does not affect the amenity of any existing nearby residents, and that the amenity of the future residents will also be acceptable" given the location near to the road and railway line.
Waverley website
Images: Harworth / nineteen47
9 comments:
Sounds about right... "let's stick the poorer people down by railway line".
If they open a station as planned that increase the value of the houses so your comment makes no sense
Being fairly close to a station increases property value. Being a few feet from a railway line does not.
Where are the plans that show affordable housing has been located within a few feet of the railway line?
Define "poorer people"
Don't know what the new housing will be going for but don't imagine many of them will be bought by families on benefits.
Poverty in the UK is relative, as we thankfully have few who experience the daily threat to their very existence in war zones, famine regions and areas prone to natural disasters.
Nevertheless there are significant numbers in this country who face a daily struggle to keep warm, feed themselves and their families, keep or even acquire a roof over their heads, or enjoy the kinds of pleasures most of us take for granted.
It is a national scandal that we allow this to happen while a small minority own most of the wealth and privilege that they continue to abuse.
Didn't one of our posters suggest that people were putting their names down for Waverley properties on the beaches of Callais?
No.
I seem to remember something of the sort
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