Castle Green suffers defeat in Flintshire
County councillors voted against officer recommendation to reject the housebuilder’s plans for 315 homes on 25 acres off Holywell Road in Ewloe.
Flintshire County Council’s planning committee stated that Castle Green Homes’ proposed neighbourhood represented over development as the local development plan had allocated and indicative yield of 298 homes.
County councillors also objected to the diversion of the public right of way and the grouping of affordable housing across the site.
It took nearly two hours for the councillors to come to that decision. This was also the second time the application had come to the committee – members had deferred it in November, seeking additional information regarding drainage. At the November meeting, they had also indicated they would prefer a smaller project.
Castle Green’s plans had included 126 affordable homes and four acres of public open space. Section 106 contributions of £900,000 towards the local primary school and £1m towards a high school expansion had also been proposed.
Ascerta, E3P, Baldwin Design Consultancy, TPM Landscape Architects, Coopers, and NKC Geotech rounded out the project team.
You can learn more about the proposals by searching reference FUL/000429/24 on Flintshire’s planning portal.
another easy appeal and more public money wasted when costs are awarded…Labour really were right to take large housing sites out of the hands of committee’s…maybe we should be done with them altogether.
By Anonymous
What a joke! The Local Plan allocation is an indicative figure for yield on the site, not a maximum! To these Councillors, its almost as if we aren’t in the most serious housing crisis in history!
By Anonymous