Housing plans go ahead after three-year wait

AN AMBITIOUS scheme to develop housing on a derelict piece of land looks set to go ahead after a public body offered to plug a �3 million shortfall.

Developer Lovell Partnership is ready to build 91 homes on land off Ridgway Road, Hanley, after the Homes and Communities Agency, the body which owns the site, agreed to support the scheme.

Outline planning permission was given for housing on the site in 2007 and it was agreed there would be 91 homes the following year.

But the scheme was hit with numerous delays due to a downturn in the residential housing market.

The land was left lying empty and the original outline planning consent has now expired.

Now, more than three years after the original planning permission was given, the project is finally set to start moving again.

The report, which was rubber-stamped by councillors at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, read: "The main benefit of this scheme is that it will bring back in to use a derelict site adjacent to a conservation area and a canal.

"It will provide a range of residential accommodation, including apartments and family housing, as well as a significant injection of private and public investment."

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