Gleeson faces opposition for 163 Carlisle homes
Cumberland councillors have been recommended to refuse the housebuilder’s application to build on nearly 20 acres in Houghton village.
The local authority’s planning officers provided two reasons for councillors to reject Gleeson Homes’ application:
- The application intrudes into the open countryside
- An overriding need for additional housing in Houghton has not been demonstrated
Gleeson’s proposal for 163 homes centres on a plot off Brunstock Lane, one that has other residential developments on two sides. The site was not allocated for housing under the area’s local plan.
Gleeson submitted its application in 2023. In the planning statement by PFK Planning and Development, a vision of bungalows, semi-detached, and detached homes is painted.
There would be 16 two-bed bungalows, 19 two-bed two-storey houses, 86 three-bed houses, and 42 four-bed ones.
Off the 163, 33 would be designated as affordable – nine of which would be first homes, eight available for discounted sale, and 16 for affordable rent.
You can learn more about the application by searching referenced 23/0347 on Cumberland Council’s planning portal. Cumberland Council’s planning committee will weigh in on the application on 14 January.
“People already with a roof over their head do all they can to ensure no one else can do” – errrrm. Housing crisis. Grow up and take some of the strain!!
By More not less
If developers didn’t build almost right up the existing houses back fences then residents might be more welcoming. Those plans could have been tweaked to allow more space between the new houses and existing residents to ease the feeling of being over looked and infringed. On such non city centre sites there’s no need to do this apart from cramming as many houses in as possible for profit.
By GetItBuilt!