The next stage in a plan for where thousands of homes could be built in one part of Nottinghamshire has been approved.
Gedling Borough Council’s cabinet sat down on Thursday (May 21) to re-address patches of Gedling’s green areas that could one day be allocated for homes.
All local authorities that are responsible for providing housing or land for housing use something called the ‘standard method’ for calculating the housing need in their areas.
For Gedling, this number is 638 homes per year, which is a total of 11,484 new homes needing to be built over its local development plan period to 2043.
Because there are existing housing allocations in the borough and there are various housing developments either currently under construction or with planning permission, this large number drops down to 6,045 new homes being needed by 2043.
To achieve this, the Borough Council has been working towards finding suitable land where these several thousand homes could be built and has now narrowed the areas down, with an officer saying particular focus is on “as much housing as possible” to be part of the urban sprawl of Nottingham.
These patches of green space are part of the authority’s draft Local Development Plan, in which the next stage of it was approved by the cabinet on Thursday.
The proposed allocations near to the Nottingham urban sprawl include:
- The former Sherwood Academy, Gedling – 125 homes
- Lime Lane, Dorket Head – 925 homes
- Mapperley Golf Course – 750 homes
- Mapperley Plains East – 650 homes
- New Farm, Mansfield Road, Redhill – 375 homes
- Teal Close extension – adding 500 homes to the existing development that is under construction between Netherfield and Stoke Bardolph
- Willow Farm extension – adding 140 homes to the existing development that is under construction
Further out and more rural areas have also been included, which could involve quieter, leafy parts of the borough, such as Bestwood Village, Calverton, Ravenshead and the Top Wighay Farm site being expanding by hundreds of homes.
These allocations include:
- Top Wighay Farm site – 880 more homes added to the existing development that is under construction to the north of Hucknall
- Westhouse Farm, Bestwood Village extension – 300 homes added to the existing development that is under construction
- Park Road, Calverton – 500 homes added to the existing development that is under construction
- Mansfield Lane, Calverton – 170 homes added to the existing planning permission for the area
- Kighill Lane, Ravenshead – 120 homes added to the existing allocation
- Land west of Nottingham Road, Ravenshead – 50 homes
- Silverland Farm on Ricket Lane, Ravenshead – 750 homes
Speaking in Thursday’s meeting, Councillor Kyle Robinson-Payne (Lab), said he was supportive of a “robust local plan” but raised existing concerns those living in Redhill have on more development and some negative public feeling already towards the potential building on Mapperley Golf Club.
He said: “[Redhill] residents have already experienced congestion and I know issues on Mansfield Road and the poor air quality issues have been highlighted in the report.
“I do think when people raise concerns about the impact of development on our roads, transport, public health, schools, GP provision, flooding and drainage, I do think it’s important we listen to people’s concerns.
“These proposals are now moving out to consultation and, if there is further evidence that people want to provide for the areas and the locations they have concerns about, then this is precisely the moment for local people to put that forward.”
The council says it is planning a six-week consultation period from late June over the proposals, where residents are being urged to share their views.
The authority’s leader, John Clarke (Lab) said he wants “as much press as possible” over the draft development plan’s consultation period, which will “help the council form an opinion”.
