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Development of 54 Arnold homes to now go ahead as builder agrees on money it will pay to help improve the local area

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The construction of 54 homes on Arnold farmland can now go ahead after a developer agreed how much money it will pay back to help improve the local area.

Gedling Borough Council first received plans for 54 homes off Mapperley Plains, Arnold, from applicant and developer Cameron Homes in early 2024.

The council’s planning committee approved them on September 26, but said they were subject to the developer paying financial contributions to the wider area – these have since been finalised.

Housing developers make ‘Section 106’ contributions to councils when given permission to build homes- these are financial contributions to services in the wider area.

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For this development, the affordable homes in the scheme are part of the contributions, with an education contribution of around £330,000 for Arnold’s schools, £2,047 going towards Arnold Library and nearly £30,000 going towards local GP surgeries all now agreed.

The site is former farmland close to Brookfields Garden Centre on Mapperley Plains in the north of Arnold.

There are other residential developments to the north and west of the site.

The 54 homes will form a mix of open market and affordable properties, ranging from two-bed to five-bed.

For the 16 properties earmarked for being affordable, five two-beds, five three-beds and one four bed will be affordable rent and 5 two-beds will be kept for first homes.

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The homes will be near the Alexandra Place development, a 164-home estate by Davidsons Homes.

Access to the new estate will come from the existing Davidsons Homes development from Shipley Close.

Planning for a separate three homes at Coppice Farm Stables, to the south-east of the application site, was granted in 2022.

Cameron Homes says its plans for appearance for the 54 homes will form a “cohesive development”.

Planning papers also say “the majority of allocated parking will be provided on-plot”.

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Proposals include a patch of public open space which appears centralised on plans.

The new homes will be well connected to the wider area, with a number of bus services, within walking distance along the Mapperley Plains carriageway, operating to Arnold, Woodborough, Bestwood Park, Mapperley and Nottingham  City Centre.

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