An outline planning application for 45 homes and 56 flats was submitted in April for the Mallard complex site in Forest, which included using adjoining land.
Planners are still considering that application, revised from the original submission, to have 85 units – 34 dwellings and 51 flats.
‘The owners of the bungalow land to the east of The Venture Inn have decided that they wish to retain their property and remain,’ said Lovell Ozanne director Andrew Merrett in the latest planning documents.
‘This has had the impact of reducing the developable area and has added a constraint to the proposed site layout.’
Under the latest scheme, the access to the area to the north of the Mallard Complex has been revised, with a new vehicle entrance being provided on the northern boundary.
The development would have a mix of allocated and communal car parking, which aims to ‘provide sufficient overspill, whilst discouraging high car ownership levels.’
The vast majority of the units – 63 – are one- or two-bed units.
Each of these units would have one allocated parking space and half a communal space.
The 18 three-bed homes, two four-bed homes and two five-bed homes would each have two allocated spaces, as well as half a communal space.
Of the homes, 69 would be for the Guernsey Housing Association and 16 for private developer Infinity.
The layout has been tweaked after meetings with conservation and design staff at the Development & Planning Authority.
There have also been meetings with representatives of Le Rondin School, which shares its western boundary with the Mallard.
‘To mitigate any overlooking of the school from the proposed development, we have redesigned the layout, moving accommodation further away from the boundary, providing a high acoustic fence and reinforcing the existing boundary planting,’ Mr Merrett wrote in the cover letter.
‘Infinity Construction has also provided a Construction Environmental Management Plan which addresses several of the construction challenges referred to by children of the school.’
The CEMP document details how the construction would generally take place between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays.
Noisy work would be limited to these hours.
Measures to reduce the noise past the site boundary would include high-level hoarding and hedging surrounding the site, use of mufflers on plant equipment and trying to use newer, modern, quieter equipment.
There would also be an effort to avoid undertaking noisy processes on site, such as crushing, and noisy equipment such as generators would be located away from the boundary.
The land just across the boundary from the school will remain car parking, with the housing focused to the north and south of the Mallard building.
The latest plans can be viewed at https://www.gov.gg/liveplanningapplications.
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