Project Description
Blue Spruce Properties Ltd entered into an Option Agreement with the landowner of the 2.17 acre site at West End Close in South Petherton. The site was a greenfield parcel of land which had been previously used as a pony paddock and had no previous residential development planning consents. As a part of the agreement with the landowner, Blue Spruce Properties Ltd partnered up with a Registered Provider to deliver a 100% affordable housing scheme. After carefully appraising the site a full planning application for 34 No. dwellings was prepared and submitted to the Local Planning Authority. The application was submitted in November 2017 and was successively approved in August 2018.
Whilst the site was located on the edge of South Petherton’s settlement boundary, the lack of a five year housing land supply being demonstrated by the Local Planning Authority was used to justify the planning application. After only one year from entering into the agreement we successfully achieved a full planning consent and completed the sale of the site with the landowner and Registered Provider shortly afterwards.
This case study demonstrates our ability to gain planning permission on sites with no previous planning history and which may not normally be considered acceptable for development due to their locality and rural setting.
