Over 230 new homes on way?

Plans for more than 230 new homes in villages close to Spalding were due to be discussed by planners yesterday.

Members of South Holland District Council are recommended to approve all four applications, one full and three outline.

A former nursery and greenhouse in Wardentree Lane, Pinchbeck, looks set to have up to 96 new homes.

The village parish council and public have objected but the recommendation is to approve the plans subject to a range of conditions.

The developer must pay £214,253 to Wygate Park

Primary School and £42,624 towards local NHS services.

The district council also wants a quarter of the homes to be allocated as affordable.

“It is accepted that the development would have some impact upon the amenity of nearby residents,” says the report but it also adds that the impact “is not considered to be material.”

The full details of the housing style will be discussed at a later stage in the process.

An application for 51 new homes at Weston High Road is a reduction on the original 53 proposed for the agricultural site, which is outside a defined settlement limit.

The parish council objects on a range of issues, including the loss of agricultural land and infrastructure.

But the scheme is also recommended for approval with the provision of a quarter as affordable homes. Again, all the detail will be discussed at a later date.

In Crowland, plans for 47 homes were also on the planning agenda.

The greenfield site is off Crease Drove and the developer will have to pay £122,633 towards open space and recreation and £14,734 to The Deepings School. Land to the south of the site was the subject of approved plans for 47 homes to the south of the site.

“To deliver the council’s required housing need it is inevitable that some high-grade agricultural land will be lost,” said a report to members of the committee.

The fourth application, an outline document, is for up to 45 homes at the former station yard and Croft House Nursery, Mill Drove, South Cowbit.

The application is over two sites and includes the realignment of the Mill Drove South to Stonegate Road junction.

The indicative plan shows 44 homes on the site with a 25 per cent affordable housing supply.

Both sites, divided by Mill Drove South, are brownfield and the nursery is “near redundant” and the yard “sparingly used”, according to the report.

The parish council objects to the application and requests a £51,000 developer contribution to road safety and infrastructure if the plan is granted permission.

A further £101,487 should go to Weston Hills Primary as Cowbit Primary cannot be expanded.

The report also requests working with the developer to save the goods shed, built in 1867, which could be used as a barn conversion rather than demolished as currently planned.