Developer using council’s local plan deficit to push through homes

A developer is using Ashfield District Council’s lack of an adopted housing plan to push through 137 homes on greenbelt land. Peveril Homes Ltd has submitted the plans with the homes earmarked for land off Park Lane, Selston, along the eastern boundary of the M1 motorway.

Now the developer wants to push into Selston’s greenbelt by creating the 137-home development in separate countryside. The development would provide 24 two-bedroom homes, 52 three-bedroom properties and a further 61 four-bedroom houses. It leaves a deficit of 1,535 homes that have not been provided in longer-term planning and the developer says this means its plans should be given special weight. In documents, the developer said: “There is little prospect that this position will improve over the next two or three years pending the consultation, examination and adoption of a new local plan.

Concerns have been raised by some Selston residents that the new plans could impact their area. In an objection on the council’s planning portal, one person said: “The land is greenbelt, therefore to even consider building houses on it is utterly disgusting. Councillors voted to remove both the two largest settlements from the document on Tuesday . It means the authority will look to submit a 15-year plan that fails to meet the 8,226-home target set out through Government housing calculations.

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