PLANS for 61 new homes on land outside a Somerset village have been submitted.
The scheme, for land north of the Stanchester Academy, at East Stoke, near Stoke sub Hamdon, has been submitted to Somerset Council by GTH on behalf of Wessex Strategic.
It would see a range of homes and open spaces developed on the 8.4-acre site, which is currently agricultural land, with a new access created off the road between the A3088 and Montacute Road.
More than 60 homes could be built on the 8.4-acre site near Stoke sub Hamdon. Picture: GTH/Pad/Somerset Council
Made up of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom properties, the scheme would include 21 affordable homes, the plans said, including five ‘first homes’.
“The application proposes a range of house types to meet the needs of the local area to include a range of bedroom numbers, apartments, detached dwellings, semi-detached properties and terraces,” the application said.
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Overhead power lines crossing the site would be grounded and diverted “underneath the new highway infrastructure”, they went on.
The applicants have been consulting with residents, as well as Somerset Council and parish councils, and come after the authority issued a ‘call for sites’, suitable for housing.
New hedgerows and trees would be “strategically planted” to “reduce the visual impact of the residential development”, the plans added, included from nearby footpaths.
The scheme will now be considered by Somerset Council. For more details, and to comment on the application, log on to somerset.gov.uk and search reference 25/02103/FUL.
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More than 60 homes could be built on the 8.4-acre site near Stoke sub Hamdon. Picture: GTH/Pad/Somerset Council
Stoke can’t take more people GP full too many cars speeding through both Montacute and Stoke as it is.
Link road used by boy racers won’t be long before an accident happens. If more people are trying to get out onto the link road there will be more accidents then there already are. Views spoiled as you come into both villages and Stoke and Montacute will be nearly connected. Can schools cope?
Our villages don’t want and don’t need more people especially bringing more cars. Speak to the speedwatch teams to see how bad the speeding is and number of cars already.