Potential New Housing - Consultation

[Dabbler]

I've been made aware that Barratt Homes is running a drop in session on Tuesday 9th August between 4pm and 8pm at St Annes RC Church Hall, Lynton Avenue, Stafford to seek views on a housing proposal for Cornwall Drive - Truro Way (Saxonfields). Their leaflet states:

"As you may be aware the land at Cornwall Drive - Truro Way, Baswich is currently reserved in the Stafford Borough Local Plan for the Stafford Eastern Distributor Road. Barratt West Midlands is interested in part of the site as it has potential for a modest housing development of approximately 35 homes.

As matters stand the land at North Baswich will potentially be developed with the Eastern Distributor Road which, during Stafford Council's Core Strategy Consultation it was argued, would lea to increased heavy goods traffic passing along the A513 Lichfield Road and the proposed Eastern Distributor Road to join the M6 to the North and would directly impact upon the Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Barratt believes that some of the land is more suited to development, being adjacent to existing Barratt homes built 10 years ago, and thus serving as a natural development extension.

Barratt, as a conscientious and consultation orientated company, would very much like to obtain your views on the need for the Eastern Distributor Road, or the alternative of a modest residential development. We will be running a drop in session to give the site's immediate neighbours the opportunity to see the outline plans and to put your questions to our development team."

So, if this is of interest to you, St Annes RC Church Hall is the place to be, on Tuesday 9th August between 4 - 8pm.

Hope that is useful to some of you!

Dabbler

 

[tek-monkey]

Barrat believe that the area is better used for housing because barrat want to make money from it, they couldn't give a monkeys about what is best for the area (unless it means other land they hold changes potential value). Do we have any more details on the Stafford Eastern Distributor Road?

 

[My Name is URL]

Barrat believe that the area is better used for housing because barrat want to make money from it, they couldn't give a monkeys about what is best for the area (unless it means other land they hold changes potential value). Do we have any more details on the Stafford Eastern Distributor Road?

Nail on the head there... these consultations make me laugh. Any switched on person can see through the lies and half truths spouted by their sales clones from a million miles away.

Problem is too many people are fobbed off or give loose comments that aren't specific enough to not be manipulted to meet the needs of the developer.

 

[Dabbler]

I don't know anything further about the Eastern Distributor Road, and I have no real understanding at the moment of whether the distributor road or the proposed housing development would be the right thing for the area. I don't even know who owns the land involved (it is the piece of land bordering Baswich Lane, Truro Way and Cornwall Drive), but given that Barratt are interested in views, I thought I'd post it up to see what people think and promote the event.

As a local resident, I do think that we have some traffic issues in the area that will only get worse as more sites are developed, but then, if the Distributor Road is built, will that exacerbate the traffic issues more?

 

[John Marwood]

Barratt Homes are higher up the quality league table than Redrow, Bovis ( tree killers) and other 'developers' currently building or touting in the Borough...

New homes? Stafford? Must be a reason for all the optomism as once you have built you have sell in short space of time..and it cant be a the HSR...

 

[tek-monkey]

Ah, the EDR is the eastern bypass! In which case expect Barratt to get the land, as an easy way for our council to kill the bypass idea completely. Interesting that they seem to have owned the land since the 80s with this road always in mind, yet spend millions on ugly new offices etc. instead.

 

[John Marwood]

Haha

I had to laugh at the long grass picture story

Outraged residents complaining about long grass ....
At The Meadows..

Haha!

Kin nutters

 

[Wolfie Girl]

When I moved to Stafford 40 years ago there was talk of an Eastern Bypass and we are still waiting.

 

[John Marwood]

When I moved to Stafford 40 years ago there was talk of an Eastern Bypass and we are still waiting.

Ethel Fleada came up with the idea a bit before that

 

[paintman]

I understand that the Eastern bypass route has been shelved with a hope that the demand for it will go away.

If anyone has been up Cornwall drive recently they will know that this is now a race track and more building means more cars,

Baswich Lane is now a main thoroughfare with traffic locked solid and Blackhalve Lane also is locked solid during term time.

Eventually the South side of this town will come to a complete stand still

 

[John Marwood]

Gridlock!

Maybe the South End Club is really a portal?

 

[basil]

SBRT, Saint Bertlein Relief Track... he must be turning in his grave.....

 

[John Marwood]

SBRT, Saint Bertlein Relief Track... he must be turning in his grave.....

Burial mound

 

[Withnail]

SBRT, Saint Bertlein Relief Track... he must be turning in his grave.....

Burial mound

Tomb.

 

[John Marwood]

We are playing word association?

 

[gilesjuk]

That route could do with some improvements. Plenty of people go from Baswich to the M6 that way.

If they could just put some wider bridges in place it might help.

 

[Withnail]

Merely striving for accuracy.

If anyone has been up Cornwall drive recently they will know that this is now a race track and more building means more cars,

Baswich Lane is now a main thoroughfare with traffic locked solid and Blackheath Lane also is locked solid during term time.

Eventually the South side of this town will come to a complete stand still

Not to mention however many houses are planned for the ex-Police Headquarters site - set phasers to 'fun'.

 

[gilesjuk]

We can hope they build nice expensive upmarket houses at the Police site, not 3 storey slum houses.

 

[Withnail]

The thing is, though, that the proposed route for the EDR (as far as i understand it) would be incredibly destructive, impossibly expensive and more than likely to bring further 'development' - eating up greenbelt land - in it's wake.

If 35 homes puts the kibosh on the whole idea, one would've thought it a blessing in disguise.

 

[John Marwood]

Greenbelt?!!

None round ere guvna..

Beyond Brocton is that there Green Belt toowitt to you refer

There maybe an area of outstanding natural beauty behind the bar at the pie n ale shop but i anna sinna forra bit