Developer wants to build 28 homes

6:00pm Monday 11th March 2013 in News

A HOUSING developer is planning to build another 28 homes on one of its “best-selling sites in the country” in Faringdon.

Bloor Homes, which has been building 400 homes on its Folly Park estate in Park Road for the past five years, has applied for permission to build 28 more.

And it still has 50 left to build for which it already has permission.

Bloor’s technical director Steven MacPherson said: “This has been one of our best-selling sites in the country.

“We have a permanent sales office on site, and we haven’t stopped selling throughout the recession.”

The company has given £3m to local infrastructure, including rugby and cricket pitches on the hill above the estate.

The new homes would include 17 three- and four-bedroom houses for the open market, and 11 two- and three-bedroom affordable homes. There would also be 47 parking spaces and 28 cycle spaces between the houses.

Vale of White Horse District Council is due to make a decision on May 20.

In 2011, supermarket Tesco was given permission to build a 2,140sq m store in Park Road, but has yet to begin work.

And in January, housing developer SGR Faringdon Ltd put in a planning application to build 200 homes on the other side of the town, in the Great Coxwell area.

Comments(4)

Dreaming Spires says...
9:38pm Mon 11 Mar 13

They are not 'homes', that is developerspeak, not English. They are houses.

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Myron Blatz says...
6:52am Tue 12 Mar 13

So, let's see, 400 new homes over last five years - and planning departments and local councils get amazed at why we get problems with flooding on the one hand, and massive pressure on rwfuse. waste and sewage treatment on the other? Not to mention increased demand for water from already-stretched resources, including 400+ extra washing machines, dishwashers, second bathrooms and toilets, and more garden hoses. Then there would be the addition of around 800 to 1,000 people in those 'homes' and a similar increase in eco-pollution from around 400 to 600 extra cars - plus the growth of the local rat population, boosted by the rich pickings from the new homes! Frankly, I'd say £3m 'given' by the Developer to the local communities was probably well worth the outlay for the Company's shareholders - and as we all know, money can't buy planning permission, or influence Council decisions. Now, about my garden shed which I'd like to make into a block of 12 designer-influenced (Moscow City Council) eco-flats with cherished views of Oxford's 'Dreaming Spires' over the rooftops of my neighbours ......

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Andrew:Oxford says...
1:05pm Tue 12 Mar 13

350 homes out of 400 so far and a £3M "developer contribution".

Clearly the customer pays at the bottom line as the contribution is factored into sales price.

That's around £8,500 per home straight to the local authority and off the "value" of the house. So of the 10% "deposit required" for a home loan on a new property of say £250K, around a third is to cover a hidden local tax.

Take fees and charges where appropriate and legislated, but give people real clarity on what they are paying for.

The truly shocking thing is that this £8500 could well take the cost of property between stamp duty bands which could add £5000 to the cost of a new family home between £249,000 and £257,500

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Mark L. says...
10:36am Wed 13 Mar 13

Some of the homes are bought by the MOD for personnel serving at Brize Norton. So although they use the local facilities ie Schools, Doctors etc. The council don't get any money as the MOD don't pay council tax.

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