Plans present Otterpool Park to be constructed within the neighborhood of Westenhanger railway station, between Lympne and Westenhanger.
The ‘backyard city’ improvement is being led by the Folkestone & Hythe District Council via its grasp developer car Otterpool Park LLP, supported by planning and improvement specialists Quod, Arcadis, Tibbalds and Farrells.
In addition to as much as 8,500 houses of a variety of varieties and tenures, there can be as much as 29,000 sqm of retail and associated makes use of, 87,500 sqm of employment flooring house together with industrial and light-weight industrial, 8,000 sqm of resort floorspace, 8,500 sqm of leisure/sports activities floorspace and 67,000 sqm of schooling and neighborhood – together with as much as seven major and two secondary colleges in addition to nurseries and crèches, well being centres, locations of worship and neighborhood centres.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s planning and licensing committee voted by seven votes to 5 in favour of granting define planning consent. This provides the go forward to the precept of a improvement at Otterpool Park, together with the event specification, parameter plans and the strategic design rules that can information detailed designs for every section.
It’s the first stage of a three-tiered planning method and might be adopted by frameworks for every improvement section; incorporating a phased masterplan, design code and supply plan (tier 2), after which reserved issues purposes offering improvement element (tier 3).
Grasp developer Otterpool Park LLP will now progress the detailed planning for the primary section. It contains the city centre and Citadel Park, a park centred round Westenhanger Citadel. Enabling works, together with planting on web site, are anticipated to begin later this 12 months.
Andy Jarrett, managing director of Otterpool Park LLP, stated: “This landmark choice is a pivotal level within the supply of Otterpool Park and follows seven years of planning, masterplanning and neighborhood engagement.
“We’re dedicated to creating an exemplar and sustainable backyard city that can achieve this way more than meet native housing wants. That is about creating a brand new neighborhood which incorporates all the things it must thrive now, and sooner or later, with a elementary give attention to enabling wholesome, lively, and sustainable existence and early supply of the infrastructure wanted to help a neighborhood of this scale.
“Having secured define planning, our instant focus now’s to submit the small print for the primary section after which begin work on web site by the tip of the 12 months.”
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