Go-ahead for more Meadow homes
Wednesday 19th November 2008, 11:53AM GMT.
Plans to build 17 apartments on Shrewsbury Town Football Club’s former ground have been given the final go-ahead by council bosses. There is already consent for 156 homes.
These include 112 open-market properties and 44 affordable units, on the former Gay Meadow site.
At a meeting in September Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough councillors agreed the plans for the extra apartments subject to further legal discussions.
Those have now taken place and the proposals were officially approved yesterday.
The application for the extra apartments at the site was put forward by Jennings Investments Ltd on July 3 this year.
A decision notice sent to the property developers says that work on the scheme must start within three years.
The council’s approval will mean improved flood prevention in the Wakeman School area, nearby public roads and the English Bridge gyratory as Jennings will now pay £286,800 towards flood prevention measures.
Jennings Investments sold the majority of the Abbey Foregate site to Barratt Chester at the end of last year to make way for a £60 million housing development, but the company retained a small part of the land.
The agreed proposals also include a new sub-station including bin and cycle stores, construction of an access track to nearby Network Rail land and an improved car park layout for the site.
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Flood defences do not reduce the amount of water they only divert the water elseware. Why do the enviroment angency continue to allow building on the flood plains?
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