Teenagers in Walton could get a new play area – and allotment holders a toilet for their site – if plans to allocate development funding are approved by Stafford Borough Council’s Cabinet on Thursday 1oth March.
Cabinet Members will decide whether to allocate up to £7,446 of Section 106 funds from the Bibby Sterilin housing development to create an ‘eco toilet’ for allotment holders on the Tilling Drive plots in Walton.
The report to Cabinet states that the allotment site is currently of “poor quality” and that better facilities, including a toilet, would improve things.
The balance of the Section 106 funds would be used to fund a new multi-use play area in Walton, with its exact location to be decided after public consultation, although sites mentioned in the report are Tilling Drive, Whitemill Lane and Westbridge Park.
The Cabinet report states that provision for teenagers in the Walton ward is currently “poor”.
Stafford Borough Council’s development control committee granted outline planning permission for a new housing estate on the Bibby site in the town at a meeting in November. It will involve building between 100 and 150 homes, of which at least 30 per cent will have to be affordable housing. They are likely to be a mixture of detached and semi-detached houses.
Section 106 funding is money paid to a local authority by a developer to satisfy community conditions of planning approval.
