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Search the Public Notice PortalA long-delayed plan to build up to 40 new homes, some of them affordable, alongside Herefordshire’s A49 at Moreton on Lugg has finally gained initial approval.
Oxfordshire-based Beechcroft Land, and local resident Crawford Richard Perkins, whose LinkedIn page describes him as a farmer, financier and chartered engineer, applied in June 2020 for outline permission to create a new estate on a field, currently grazed by sheep, between the A49 and Bell Homes’ recent The Spires development to the southwest of the village.
Approval for this earlier development was secured by Beechcroft Land and Mr Perkins back in 2017 and 2019.
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Their more recent bid drew over 50 public objections, while Moreton on Lugg Parish Council said parishioners “are greatly concerned about the impact on sewerage and drainage within the village”, along with the impact of increased traffic and access to the A49 junction.
The application then got held up in the so-called “moratorium” on development in the protected river Lugg catchment, due to a ruling that no extra housing could be permitted unless it could be shown it would not generate extra water pollution.
This has now been addressed via a deal between Herefordshire Council and Mr Perkins – Beechcroft having apparently dropped out of the scheme – for him to buy “phosphate credits” valued at £94,640 which will pay for waste water improvements in the county.
The so-called section 106 deal also commits him to make a contribution to local health, education, transport, libraries and waste, and to give priority to local families in allocating the affordable housing element, set at 35 per cent of the eventual houses.
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Welcoming the affordable share, planning officer Ollie Jones has now concluded that the scheme “constitutes a logical extension” of the village.
The road access, via current cul-de-sacs in The Spires rather than directly off the A49, coupled with pedestrian links to the bus stop on the main road, were “appropriate”, while the application “satisfactorily addresses surface water management”, he wrote.
Details of the house designs, layout and landscaping must now be separately approved under what is known as a reserved matters application.
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