Plans have been submitted for the details of phase 2 of the Eastern Green Housing Scheme.
The proposed development is for 491 houses, which is the second phase of what is now called the Pickford Gate development. The first phase was approved last year and comprised approximately 250 houses, as well as highway and drainage works.
The development is on land that was Green Belt up to 2017. The Coventry Local Plan, which was approved in that year, took the land out of Green Belt to develop what the Council calls a “Sustainable Urban Extension” (SUE).
The total site is 142 acres and will ultimately have 2400 homes, new shops and a school under outline plans approved in 2021.
The latest Reserved Matters Application are for 491 homes on a smaller part of the land by Pickford Brook and Pickford Green Lane. A quarter of these would be so-called ‘affordable’ housing and a fifth of those for sale would be two and a half to three storeys high.
A design & access statement by architects IDP Group on behalf of Barratt and David Wilson Homes said plans will address “identified housing need” in the area and make a “positive contribution” to its character and quality.
Plans can be found on the council’s planning portal via reference: PL/2024/0001532/RESM.
