Development company Rosaire Properties has applied for planning permission for the development at the former Cleveleys Vinery.
The site is to the south of Braye Road, but to the north of the former Datapark site and Kenilworth Vinery – which have been earmarked by the States for housing.
Six properties were built towards the north of the site about 10 years ago. But despite being an allocated housing site since 2016, and a development framework being approved in 2018 for the site to be used for housing, it has stood empty.
Rosaire Properties director George Wilkinson said the delays were caused by a previous States policy.
‘It had not been economic to develop the site until planning policy GP11 was removed, so I say thank you to the politicians who made that happen and also to the planning service and other facilitators for the much more practical and proactive approach to housing delivery that we’ve seen in recent months,’ he said.
GP11, which required that a percentage of large housing projects were used for affordable housing, was scrapped in 2014. Instead of creating more affordable housing, the policy discouraged developers from moving forward with larger projects.
The new development would see an access road to the east of these homes to reach the land behind.
In a letter sent with the planning application, A7 Architecture director Andre Rolfe-Bisson said that the development framework – which guided how the planners would like to see the site developed, suggested up to 29 more homes could be built on the site.
‘However, the development framework states that the actual number may be higher or lower depending on the details, and the 42 dwellings proposed in this application are therefore permissible.’
The homes would all be two-storey, with 13 one-beds and 29 two- beds.
All the units have private rear garden areas, which Mr Rolfe-Bisson described as a ‘suitable size to the level of accommodation proposed’.
‘A small area of enclosed gardens and courtyards will be essential for family enjoyment and as such is proposed to the rear of each dwelling,’ he said.
All the properties have been designed to face towards the access road, and areas of landscaped planting immediately fronting the dwellings have been minimised to ensure that these areas are naturally overlooked.
The plans can be viewed at gov.gg/liveplanningapplications.
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