A major council project in Mansfield to build 22 high quality, eco-friendly homes let at an affordable rent has been given planning consent.
Mansfield District Council Planning Applications Committee today (Monday 2 August) approved the council's own £5.7m scheme which involves demolishing a row of flats and shops in Egmanton Road on the Bellamy Road estate.
In their place would be 22 new family homes built round a "village green" with a play area, learn to ride cycle track, plus a new single storey parade of retail outlets with a convenience store, cafe and takeaway. Work on the scheme is expected to start later this year.
The council's in-house Architects are designing the homes to align with government carbon reduction targets and to the Future Homes Standard, expected to be adopted nationally by 2025.
The standard requires new homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and high energy efficiency with an average semi-detached home producing 75% to 80% fewer carbon dioxide emissions than one built to current Building Regulations.
Cllr Marion Bradshaw, Portfolio Holder for Safer Communities, Housing and Wellbeing, said: "This important scheme will help to regenerate what is, at the moment, a pretty run-down area of this estate and significantly improve the quality of life for residents.
"All the homes will be built to a higher specification than is currently required to future proof them for expected new housing standards and make them flexible living spaces that can adapt to tenants' changing needs over their lifetime.
"The construction of them will also provide work and supply chain opportunities for local people and businesses."
This scheme will see the redevelopment of the central area of the Bellamy Road estate. As well as new housing and shops, there would also be a new traffic-calmed through road connecting Thorpe Road and Egmanton Road which will allow for improved bus connections through this part of the estate.
The new housing would comprise: three four-bedroom semi-detached houses; eight three-bedroom semi-detached houses; nine two-bedroom semi-detached houses and two two-bedroom detached houses.