Seddon Homes is preparing a planning application for around 30 new homes at land off Trent Road in Stone.
The housebuilder has distributed a four-page leaflet to people living nearby and is holding a public consultation event at Stone Lawn Tennis and Squash Club in Newcastle Road on Tuesday 8th October between 4pm and 7pm.
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Here’s the Seddon Homes leaflet. Thanks to Ian Key and others for sending it to us…
4 comments
Tony the Tiger
I fully agree Jill. Bibby’s site is for sale and the old out of date factory is brown field. Good idea of Seddon’s to build right up to the edge of the flood plain. I believe ABB also a brown field site has suggested they apply to build residential. Yarnfield Lane/Trent Road junction is going get silly when development on BT site is completed with another 600 car journeys at least to the local ameneties. I worked for a company that did deigns for a large storm water pumping station for the other side of Trent Road because of the flood potential. This development was refused
Stone Bloke
unfortunatley TESCO has first dibbs on the ABB site
Stoned
Nooooooooooooooooooo
Is this true?
We def don’t need another supermarket, we need the council/landlords to help small businesses and the High Street (helping the coop site and not allowing M&S to occupy a park/scout hut might have been nice too)
Councillor Mrs Jill Hood
The Seddon leaflet states the “New public open space”. Public open space already exists there and it’s completely accessible without houses being built on it. ” Vehicular access from Trent Road” The junction to the A34 from Trent Road is an accident hotspot and only this morning there was a very bad accident there involving a motor bike.” Retention of existing mature trees” Don’t be fooled by this! I received a call from a Trent Road resident last week asking why trees had been felled in the field. It goes on to say “There is not enough land inside Stone to deliver the amount of housing needed and therefore greenfield land on the edge of Stone is required to meet demand” What an absolute load of rubbish. Seddon are fully aware that the Plan For Stafford Borough submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination on August 20th states, we must have 8oo homes built in Stone, 400 are to be built on the Eccleshall Road in Walton and over 200 on Tilling Drive. With permission already granted and other applications pending for other housing in Stone this will take us OVER the 800. Seddon like many other developers are trying to beat the Stafford Borough plan before it’s finalised. We cannot afford to lose any more greenfield land, it’s one of the reasons that makes our town a desirable and attractive place to live work and visit. The land which the proposed development would be built on, floods on a regular basis, Trent road is narrow and lined with natural hedge rows full of wild life. How many more of these developers in their rush to beat the Stafford Borough Plan will submit plans on the remaining Greenfield sites, with the reason given that housing is needed in Stone. Land owners are keen to make a quick buck from the greedy developers circling like vultures.