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Plans for 53 homes at the former Seabridge Community Education Centre were approved through Newcastle City Council despite reservations from councillors. Previously, the application was postponed due to considerations about collecting containers and cutting down 14 mature trees.
Plans for the former Seabridge Community Education Center on Roe Lane will include a two- to five-bedroom set of two-story homes, 25 percent of which will be housing.
The applicant made a number of adjustments to the application based on feedback from the last committee meeting. The adjustments include widening the path followed by nine meters, which means that the distance citizens would have to travel to empty their garbage bins has been reduced from 30 meters to 24 meters.
READ: Plans for 53 new homes on site of old school are expected to be approved. The former site of the Seabridge Community Education Centre was sold through Staffordshire County Council to an asset developer in 2022.
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Eleanor Lovett, Planning Officer, told the plan-making committee, “We listened to considerations and tried to respond or modify the allocation where possible. It is generally strongly believed that this assignment will be a high-quality residential progression on this abandoned and abandoned site in the urban area.
However, he told the committee that the applicant had tried to conserve existing mature trees on the site, technical limitations and access restrictions to the site, which in the past meant that the trees had to be removed. However, to compensate for the losses, trees would be planted and replaced if they were broken or unviable for five years.
Councilmember Mark Holland told the committee, “We’re still in a scenario where we haven’t yet traveled as many highways as some of us would like. We are told that we may have more, but that would be at the expense of the remaining Tree that must be preserved. I’m not sure that’s true, I think there’s a choice solution even if they’re not answers we can have today.
“So while many of those adjustments are welcome, the relocation of the electrical substation and the careful attention to trash collection. I still have attention on Parcel 43, I know that the citizens of the surrounding domain are paying attention, and I see that there are no adjustments proposals made in this regard. On that basis, I feel in a position to vote in favour of the draft before us this afternoon. “
The request was narrowly approved and several councillors abstained or voted on the proposal.
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