Regeneration specialist Countryside Properties has won planning consent for a mixed-use development in Horsted, Kent, on the site of the former home of Mid Kent College.
The scheme, designed by Proctor & Matthews Architects, is two miles south of Chatham and Rochester town centres. It will comprise 336 houses alongside community and retail facilities, with a proportion of the homes being designated extra care affordable for the elderly.
Outline planning consent has been granted for the project as a whole and detailed consent for a first phase of 153 homes.
The plans contain 6.5 acres of open space, representing around 30% of the total site. Houses will be a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom family homes. Alongside the houses, two apartment blocks will form pivotal landmark buildings.
Tony Travers, managing director of New Homes and Communities division at Countryside Properties said: “Our objective at Horsted is to create a residential quarter for Chatham where residents will genuinely want to live, with its own character and sense of place. We have worked hard with the local community and Proctor & Matthews to create a design that achieves this, and we are delighted we now have planning and can go ahead. We will be starting on site soon.”
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