Plans for 400 homes to be considered again

The decision to build hundreds of homes in a Nottinghamshire town is being revisited due to concerns about a previous approval.

Mansfield’s District Council will reconsider plans for up to 400 houses on Abbott Road after doubts arose about a planning obligation agreement.

The council initially approved the project in March, but uncertainties about the agreement’s content and scope have led to a review.

Council members will discuss the agreement again to clarify whether they want to uphold the original decision.

The committee of Mansfield District Council will review the plans on Monday, November 27.

The first part of the Penniment Farm housing project, consisting of 202 homes, has already been finished and the proposed changes aim to add 170 more homes across the remaining three phases.

Commercial Estates Projects Limited & Hallam Land Management, the applicants, will provide details about the appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale for each phase of the development at a later date.

Planning officers said: “The site occupies a sustainable location within the urban boundary, is in close proximity to existing facilities and infrastructure and is an allocated site for housing in the Adopted Local Plan.

“Accordingly, the development reinforces the previous decision of the Council in granting residential development on this site and further assists in the delivery of new homes to the district by the additional 170 dwellings proposed. In view however, of the expired permission for the employment land previously included in the [outline] permission, suitable conditions need to be included and clauses with a new supplemental S106 agreement to ensure that the residential element cannot be concluded without first having commenced the employment land developments.”