Bid for new homes in Stannington Station Road submitted to council
Plans have been put forward for housing at a site off Stannington Station Road.
Altoria Development Limited has lodged an application for the erection of seven single-storey dwellings – together with associated access, landscaping and supporting infrastructure – on land to the West of Furrow Grove with Northumberland County Council.
The application site is located to the south of Stannington Station Road and is accessed via the recently constructed residential estate at Furrow Grove.
The planning statement, one of the documents submitted to the council, includes the following: “The adjacent residential development at Furrow Grove has now been completed and is fully established, forming a clear and permanent extension of the built form in this location.
“As a result, the application site is no longer experienced as part of the wider open countryside. Instead, it now occupies a contained position within the built environment, being enclosed by and closely related to surrounding residential development.
“The site reads as a transitional and visually contained parcel of land within the settlement pattern, rather than as an isolated or outward-facing edge-of-settlement site.
“It has been subject to significant and irreversible physical disturbance, including ground stripping, reprofiling and its use as a construction compound. As a consequence, the land no longer exhibits the characteristics typically associated with undeveloped green belt land.
“The materially altered condition of the site, its containment, its limited green belt function, the delivery of Biodiversity Net Gain, the provision of an appropriate housing mix and the absence of any technical harm together form a robust and coherent justification which decisively outweighs any limited harm identified.”