Kingsthorpe Close planning application to be submitted in May

Housing developer Keepmoat Homes Ltd look set to put in a planning application soon to transform the former site of Kingsthorope flats in Mapperley, Nottingham.

Regeneration Officer Debra Ross who is the City Council Project officer for the scheme said today “We are still working with Keepmoat regarding the development and I understand they are aiming to submit a planning application early in May.”

In March Keepmoat Homes Ltd were given planning permission to build another 111 new houses on the Stonebridge Park Estate.

In February 2012 Nottingham City Council published a ‘planning brief’ showing how they would like to see the land redeveloped. The Draft Planning Guidance for the former Kingsthorpe and Kildare Flats was written by Sukjinder Johal (Officer for Planning & Transport Strategy.

The other colleagues who have provided input to the Report were: Debra Ross, Housing Strategy’ Edmund Hopkins, Development Management; Kate Perrey, Planning & Transport Strategy; James Dymond, Parks & Open Spaces; and Matt Leek, Traffic Management.

 

According to the plan in the Planning Brief (Shown here), retained existing houses are shown in purple, while the black zebra pattern shows the proposed new houses which are to be built on the land.

All of the proposed back gardens of the new properties will mainly over look the Wells Road above the steep bank, shown in light green on the plan. Trees are indicated by the dark green areas.

The red tracks are the proposed roads into, and around the new housing development.

The plan also shows a new children’s playground.

The area shown in light blue at the bottom of the plans are an entirely separate development site. This is the land of the former Gardener’s pub, and St Ann’s ‘Magical Well.’ Developer Thurcroft Properties Ltd, of Bingham, Nottingham, has successfully gained planning permission to build 9 houses on the land, after an archaeological excavation has taken place in the near future.

The planning application was approved in October 2011, and expires in 2016.

By Richard Pearson