200 New Homes to be built on Stonebridge Park

More good new for Stonebridge Park this week, as the Nottingham Target Plan for new house building in the City says that over 200 new homes are to be built on our estate by 2018.

The Executive Board of Nottingham City Council meets on Tuesday 20^th November to discuss their three year Housing Nottingham Plan 2013-2015. This is a ‘draft’ copy of a joint report by Mike Andrews CEO of Nottingham Community Housing Association. Chair of Nottingham's Housing Strategic Partnership. And St Ann’s Labour Councillor David Liversidge, Portfolio Holder for Housing Delivery at Nottingham City Council.

This is a detailed and comprehensive 65 page document that covers every aspect of housing strategy in Nottingham, and is being presented to the Executive Board along side the Nottingham Target Plan to 2020.

The Stonebridge Park Estate gets a mention in both documents.

Recently Keepmoat Homes Ltd has been awarded ‘kick start’ funding from the Homes & Communities Agency under the ‘Get Britain Building Program’ to enable them to build 104 new homes on Stonebridge Park. Keepmoat are presently in discussions with the City Council as to the best and most economical way to provide these properties in the near future. However, Keepmoat are not mentioned by name, the Target Plan simply says “NCC in partnership with private developers.”

The Nottingham Target Plan is to deliver 11,500 new homes by 2020 across Nottingham, with 4,150 to be completed by 2014.

For the Stonebridge Park Estate the plan indicates that “61 new homes are to be provided by ASRA” (Leicester Housing Association) by March 2015. It also says that “Stonebridge Park phases 3 & 6 consist of 40 houses being built by Dec 2013 and 104 units by March 2017. NCC in partnership with private developers.”

However, the 2009 Master Plan for our Estate shows 165 additional new homes to be built here in the near future, including the 16 new units to be built by ASRA in 2013. So in reality the number of new social houses to be constructed is likely to be closer to 150 by 2018.

ASRA have just submitted a planning application to build 16 new houses in Limmen Gardens. If the application is successful they aim to begin building them next summer; the construction company being Lovell Partnerships.

In the Housing Nottingham Plan under the Regeneration Theme, it says “transforming Nottingham’s Neighbourhoods is identified as Strategic Priority 2 in the Nottingham Plan 2020 which aims to achieve:

“Greater balance…. in the city’s housing market with an increased choice of quality housing meeting the needs of a diverse population and enabling the city to retain more of its aspiring residents”.

“In Nottingham, the Stonebridge Park regeneration scheme has provided a good example of where housing replacement programmes have attracted regeneration benefits beyond the initial scope of the scheme. The scheme has created 10 apprenticeships for local young people while delivering 95 new homes. In addition, the programme has stimulated the development of a new extra-care facility, Albany House on an adjacent site. Private investor interest in the Carlton Road/Albany works near the southern end of the Stonebridge estate is likely to see this site brought forward for a mixed residential and retail development in the near future.”

Developer Blueprint (Igloo) intend to submit a planning application before Christmas, which includes building a new ASDA store on the Albany Works site, and new houses on the land presently occupied by the Co-op nearby.

By Richard Pearson