A Derby planning consultancy has successfully achieved permission for housing developments in two villages, despite local opposition.
The Planning and Design Practice, based in Vernon Gate, which specialises in housing and rural development matters, won the go-ahead for schemes in Etwall and Tansley.
The scheme in Etwall involved the car park of The Spread Eagle pub in the centre of the village, which has played an important part of the area’s social life for more than 200 years.
Situated in the village conservation area, the pub was once surrounded by other buildings which have been demolished, leaving it sitting in sea of tarmacadam.
Working on behalf of new owners Judy Taverns, Jonathan Jenkin, the managing director of The Planning and Design Practice, came up with a scheme to build two pairs of semi-detached homes on the rear of the car park off Portland Street, with their own parking.
The scheme, which was approved by South Derbyshire District Council planning committee, despite 10 objections, also involved re-locating the beer garden to the front of the pub so that it can also be used as a meeting area.
Six of the remaining 14 parking spaces which front Willington Road will also be available for people using nearby shops. New walling and paving will define the edge of the car park and the road.
“This will make a big difference to the centre of the village, improving its appearance,” said Jonathan. “As well as providing new housing, it will prevent haphazard parking which is a potential danger to children from John Port School and other pedestrians.”
In the other scheme, the company represented Peak District Rural Housing Association with plans to build eight low cost homes for rent to local people on a greenfield site at West Yard at the end of Thatcher’s Croft. The site is just outside the village boundary, but surrounded by housing.
Landowner and builder James Neville had drawn up the scheme, for which The Planning and Design Practice obtained planning permission form Derbyshire Dales District Council planning committee.
There was strong opposition to the scheme, which was prompted initially by a survey which identified a need for new homes to retain young people in the village, but objectors failed to identify an alternative site.
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