The 2,500-home Branston Locks scheme in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, will not be called in by communities secretary Eric Pickles.
Nurton Developments (Quintus) – a 50:50 joint venture between Nurton Developments and Wittington Investments (Developments) – has cleared the final planning hurdle for the Branston Locks development, which covers 400 acres of greenfield land previously owned by brewer Mitchells & Butler.
Plans for the site won outline consent last December and now full planning approval is subject only to a satisfactory result being reached on the planning conditions and section 106 agreement. These are currently being negotiated.
Rupert Young, Nurton’s development director, said: “Getting the all-clear from the secretary of state is one of the final hurdles in the planning process.
“The rest is down to negotiation and the majority of the areas of details have already been agreed. This decision demonstrates that the government is standing by its National Planning Policy Framework’s presumption in favour of sustainable development and is serious about ensuring that the large numbers of new homes required are delivered.”
Nurton acquired the land in June 2008 and following a lengthy masterplanning, design and consultation process submitted the outline planning application in November 2012.
JLL acted as planning consultant and is jointly retained with local agent Rushton Hickman on the commercial elements of the scheme. Savills will advise on the residential land.
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