Strata set for 1500-home Barnsley green light
The housebuilder’s plans are recommended for approval, with the application split into full planning permission for 216 homes and outline permission for a further 1,344 on land between Barugh Green Road and Higham Common Road.
As well as the 1,560 homes, Strata Sterling Barnsley West also intends to build a link road, a primary school, shops, community facilities, and infrastructure works.
Bond Bryon is the main architect on the scheme, which covers a site area of around 285 acres.
The wider project team is made up of landscape architect Gillespies, planning consultant Pegasus, cost manager Rex Proctor, highways consultant Fore Consulting, civil engineers JPG, utilities consultant Hydrock, ecological consultant Tetra Tech, and architect The Harris Partnership, who designed the commercial part of the project.
Illustrative view of the community hub. Credit: Bond Bryan/via planning docs
The site was a former mine and more recently has been used for agricultural grazing, and was allocated as a mixed-use development with up to 1,700 homes and 100 acres of employment land in Barnsley’s Local Plan.
Currently known as Barnsley West, planning documents note that the neighbourhood will have an emphasis on green and blue infrastructure designed to improve health and wellbeing.
As well as the housing, documents note the creation of employment, large areas of greenspace, and the new school are intended to benefit the community.
Barnsley Council will meet on 25 June, with a recommendation for approval. More information about the scheme can be found by searching Barnsley’s planning portal using the reference: 2021/1090.
