Plans lodged for 420 homes on fields near rail yard

Plans for 420 homes next to a rail yard in Nottinghamshire have been submitted.

The homes could be built in fields next to the Toton Sidings rail yard, known as the Toton West site, just off Stapleford Lane in Broxtowe.

They would form part of a larger master plan for Toton, Chilwell, and Chetwynd, where up to 4,500 homes are expected to be built by 2040.

Developer Bloor Homes is initially seeking full planning permission for 32 three-bed houses and 37 four-bed properties. An outline application for the remaining 351 homes, including sizes and designs, has also been lodged.

A spokesman for Bloor Homes said: "Nationally we are facing a growing housing shortage as people are living longer and in smaller households.

"There are not enough homes being built to meet demand and, as a result, there is a need to boost the supply of new homes."

Development on the land has been considered as early as 2014 under the council's plan, before being formally allocated as a proposed development site in October 2019, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

It was known in the plans as "land in the vicinity of the HS2 Station at Toton (Strategic Location for Growth)", before Boris Johnson's Conservative government scrapped the high-speed rail plans in favour of a station at East Midlands Parkway.

The entire East Midlands leg of the line was then later scrapped under Rishi Sunak's government.

The other sites in the vicinity include Toton East, where Bloor Homes and Peveril Homes are preparing a full planning application for 260 houses and open space to sit next to the Toton tram stop and park and ride.

Then, just above this site is Toton North, where Bloor Homes hopes to build a further 880 homes, a country park, a local centre, and school provision.

The developer has already submitted a outline planning application to Broxtowe Borough Council for the provision of a link road from the A52 south towards Stapleford Lane.

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