Barkin’s Cheshire housing scheme withdrawn
A CHESTER developer has withdrawn plans to build more than 100 houses on part of an old West Cheshire College site in Ellesmere Port.
Barkin Developments pulled its application for outline planning for 107 two, three and four-bedroom homes at Great Sutton before a planning meeting earlier in the week.
Councillors at Cheshire West and Chester Council were advised to refuse the application on the grounds that it would use too much valuable green space and failed to make adequate provision for affordable housing.
The proposed 9.5-acre development covers part of the old college site but also incorporates a playing field.
In their report ahead of the planning meeting council officers said the scheme would, “result in the irretrievable loss of land which has been used as a playing field and land which is capable of being used for formal outdoor sport and recreation”.
They add: “The applicant has not demonstrated that the land is genuinely surplus to requirements or provided any replacement land to compensate for that being lost at the site. The applicant has failed to address the impact that the development will have on the demand for outdoor sports provision in the area arising from the housing development.”
Barkin Developments sought to defer consideration of its plans to enable it to make amendments, a request was refused by the council. No one at the business could be reached for comment.
