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Search the Public Notice PortalPOWYS councillors have unanimously backed plans to build a council housing estate in Churchstoke.
The proposal by Powys County Council itself for 38 dwellings for “social rent” at land next to Fir House, was in front of members of the Planning committee on Thursday, June 11.
The site is situated on the south-eastern edge of Churchstoke and is currently a green field that is bounded to the north-east by the A489 trunk road.
It emerged in October last year that a new detailed but smaller proposal had been lodged with county planners.
It has taken the council 10 years to get to this position.
Previous versions of the proposal, first proposed in 2016, called for 45 homes to be built at the site.
In January 2017, an outline planning application was approved by councillors on the planning committee.
This means that the principle for building on the site has been agreed, but the details of the scheme still need to be submitted and agreed in a further planning application.
Since then, there have been problems developing the site, leading to the extension of the time limit allowed for the development.
The new reserved matters proposal explains that 10 of the houses will have one bedroom, 10 will have two, eight will have three and two will have four.
The remaining eight dwellings are set to be bungalows, four with one bedroom and four with two bedrooms.
Principal planning officer Lorraine Jenkin, who presented the report on the application, recommended that councillors approve the proposal.
Cllr Adrian Jones (Conservative – Berriew and Castle Caereinion): “Where is the footpath?
“In my memory it’s on the opposite side of the road.”
He asked if a crossing would be provided to allow residents to get to the footpath on the other side of the road?
Traffic and travel manager Tony Caine answered: “There will be a footpath on both sides of the road.
“There will be a new footpath put in on this side going in to the village and towards the Tuffins/Co-Op (shopping centre) facility.
“That will connect with existing footways on that side.”
Cllr Gareth E Jones said he was happy with proposal but wanted a condition to be clarified around when planning permission is due to expire.
One condition on the development says the council needs to start building the housing estate within two years of receiving approval or five years after outline permission expires, whichever is longer.
The outline planning permission deadline is March 2029.
Cllr Jones (Powys Independents – Llanelwedd) said: “I’m just being picky; can we just limit this to one date and make it March 2029.”
Ms Jenkin said: “Those two dates are relevant to that condition.”
Cllr Jones said he was “happy” to leave the condition as it is because the deadline to start development will be March 2029 in any case.
The committee then went to a vote which saw all 10 councillors in the meeting vote to approve the application.
