Almost half of the homes on a new estate in suburban Preston will be designed by the people who end up living in them.
The plots reserved for the custom builds – which will come in three sizes – will be clustered around green space that will act as the focal point for the development and a connected, neighbouring estate of 175 properties.
A report presented to the committee explained that the two previous approvals of the plans - the most recent of which was in November last year - had been contingent on an agreement subsequently being reached over issues including the level of affordable housing to be provided and the securing of a financial contribution towards the cost of the recently-opened East-West Link Road, which serves the multitude of new homes being built in the wider area.
However, the document explained that CGA had encountered “difficulties” with the current landowner who, committee members were told, had declined to sign that agreement - known as a “section 106” - before selling the plot. Marcus Fisher said that CGA’s “only option” as a result of the impasse was to ask the city council to agree to what he acknowledged was the “slightly unusual” situation of granting permission before the section 106 had been finalised.
He said it was “too great a risk” to CGA to proceed in any other way, but a condition attached to the latest permission will protect the council’s interests by preventing any development from taking place until the section 106 obligation is finally completed. Committee member Harry Landless summed up their feeling of his colleagues by describing the arrangement as a “technicality” which he was happy to approve.
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