Persimmon Homes have made an application (reference DC/15/4672/OUT) for the phased development of 300 homes on the part of Longstrops adjacent to Bell Lane. Consultation expires on 28 December.
Full details are available, and comments by the Kesgrave public can be made, on the SCDC Planning website for this application (after registering and providing your name, email address and postal address). If you have a view on this proposal by Persimmon then please do comment before 28 December by following the above link to the SCDC Planning website. There are numerous reasons already listed on KAGE as to why this development of further housing should not be allowed.
Persimmon hope that the delays to starting the Adastral Park housing plan (it may be 2019 before the first houses are completed due to NANT’s many appeals, instead of 2014/15) have opened the door for them to develop 15 hectares of the 50 hectare Longstrops field. The section they want to develop now is the part nearest Bell Lane (from Bell Lane up to opposite the end of Cedarwood School) and the plans include the provision of land (and only land) for a new primary school. The phases would be 100 homes at a time starting first from the access from Bell Lane and working towards Cedarwood School. A map of the proposed development is as follows:
News of the application by Persimmon can also be viewed here on the Ipswich Star website.
Kesgrave Town Council will have a Public Extra-Ordinary Meeting on Wednesday 13 January at 7:15pm at the Millennium Jubilee Hall where local residents can also make their views known to the Town Council – http://www.kesgravetowncouncil.org.uk/ – but please before 28 December do make your comments on http://planningpublicaccess.waveney.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NY2GWXQX06O00
When Adastral Park is developed it will have much better infrastructure put in place for the extra homes so it is far better Suffolk Coastal District Council wait until then rather than allow Longstrops to be part developed now when Kesgrave’s infrastructure cannot cope with more dwellings.
Here is a link to Kesgrave Town Council’s response to the application:
Response to LPA re Extraordinary Meeting 13 Jan 2016 300 homes off Bell Lane Kesgrave
According to the SCDC Planning website there were 86 public comments on the application. 83 of these were ‘against’ the application, 2 were ‘neutral’ and 1 was ‘for’ it.