Key benefits

The proposed development will:

• Reuse a redundant brownfield site, contributing to RBWM’s housing needs
• Provide housing in a sustainable location, close to local shops, services and public transport
• Provide both rented and shared ownership affordable homes
• Incorporate high-quality designs and materials, and respond positively to the adjacent Conservation Area
• Provide on-site open space, including the central green
• Increase the amount of permeable surfaces plus tree and shrub planting on-site through a comprehensive landscaping scheme
• Improve the street scene to both road frontages through appropriately designed building and new green frontages and soft landscaping
• Decrease the number of Heavy Goods Vehicle movements to the site and provide sufficient on-site parking to serve the new homes, Permanent closure of existing poorly located vehicular access points
• Provide an improved footway width to Furze Platt Road and improved pedestrian crossing