The site of the proposed new homes near Norwich City Football Club.
Plans lodged for 200 homes near Norwich City football club’s Carrow Road stadium
by DAN GRIMMER, Public affairs correspondent
Saturday, January 28, 2012
12:16 PM
Plans to breathe new life into the area around Norwich City Football Club’s stadium by building more than 200 homes have been lodged with the city council.
Broadland Housing Association wants to build 208 homes on land currently used as a car park close to the Carrow Road ground.
The vision for a new ‘Carrow Road quarter’ was first unveiled more than a year ago, but plans have now been officially submitted to planning bosses at City Hall.
The housing association had snapped up the land, currently used as a car park, from the football club and is hoping Norwich City Council’s planning committee will grant outline planning permission for the scheme.
The application for just over a hectare of land, between the river and the Laurence Scott test bed building, also includes a 190m² building which would be an estate office and 140 car parking spaces.
It also includes plans for an extension to the popular Riverside Walk, which currently comes to an end at the boom tower near Carrow Bridge.
The proposal includes one and two bedroom flats in five blocks, with parking spaces underneath.
John Dixon, a partner at architects Ingleton Wood, which is acting as agents for the planning application, said in the submission to City Hall: “This application brings forward an important waterfront site for regeneration and is one of only few significant undeveloped sites along the river front of the River Wensum in central Norwich.
“The proposal demonstrates the applicant’s continued commitment to major regeneration projects within Norwich and follows the recent completion of 100 St Benedicts Street, which is widely recognised as a catalyst project critical to regeneration.
“The development of this site will see the continuation of the agenda to deliver high quality housing schemes to meet the growing housing need in sustainable urban locations.”
The St Benedicts Street site, known as Caro Court, is a £5.8m affordable housing development of one and two bedroom flats, which opened last summer.
Twenty of those 49 flats are available as “social rented” and 29 as “intermediate rent”, which lets residents rent a home for 80pc of its open market rent level, allowing them to save the 20pc discount on rent towards a deposit to buy a property.
Of the planned new development near Carrow Road, 25 of the flats would be what are termed affordable. Thirteen would be available for rent and 12 up for sale at a discounted 70pc of market value.
Andrew Savage, an executive director at Broadland Housing Association, said: “We are hoping, if we do get it through planning in March, to start work in October or November.
“It’s not a case where we want to get this permission and bank it. We are in the business of building homes.”
Michael Newey, chief executive of Broadland Housing Association, has previously described the scheme as “a wonderful opportunity” to provide much-needed housing while breathing new life into an area in need of regeneration.
Other recent housing developments in the area include the flats behind the Noriwch and Peterborough Stand at Carrow Road, the conversion of Read’s Flour Mill in King Street into flats and apartments and the nearby Paper Mill Yard homes scheme.
Also in the pipeline are plans to build new homes at the Deal Ground and Utilities sites near Trowse, the developers of which hope to set up a river taxi from near Carrow Road to carry people to the new development.
As part of the “substantial undisclosed” deal by which Broadland Housing Association bought the land where the new homes will be be built, another car park closer to Carrow Road was snapped up. But this application does not include that area.
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11 comments
Thank God for Mortality. Yaaaaawn.
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Mad Brewer
Monday, January 30, 2012
Not only should some have been affordable, they should also have been ecologically built to the code for sustainable housing, with rainwater recovery systems, solar PV and solar water heating, triple glazing and the highest insulation standards. The land to be developed should earmark some space for a second rail line, even if it has to be tunnelled to rejoin the mainline behind the petrol station on Martineau lane, or face up to the facts of a rail connection from the 18th. century.
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ingo wagenknecht
Monday, January 30, 2012
This should be refused because there are already lots of new build unsold flats in the same area. Don't forget that a l ot of those flats were supposed to be 'affordable' but the developers didn't keep to the agreement. The council has powers to take ownership of empty properties, so why don't they use their powers to take control of all the empty Riverside flats and use them as council properties?
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I LoveNorfolk
Sunday, January 29, 2012
DaveG I am sure if Norwich City Council grants planning permission there is a nice fat brown envelope for them :p
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chebram71
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Flats for yuppies is instantly springing to mind !!!!!!!
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chebram71
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Who in their right mind would want to live right next to a active railway line that is operating 247. being woken up by the rumble and horns of moving trains all through the night. Along with utter gridlock and chaos when any event takes place at the football ground. additional housing should be being planned on the wasteland site at the old royal mail site at Rosary Road. A substantial block of flats could be built there without causing any eyesore to the area and at the western end of norwich beyond the cotesy area.
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5nowCha1n5
Saturday, January 28, 2012
What is the point, half of the properties that have been built round Carrow Road already are still looking for buyers.
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DaveG
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Good proposal. Time to get the St Anns Wharf site on the city side of the river under development [but not the 400-plus dwellings currently planned]. Why should a social housing provider be selling homes at 30% less than market value? They will ultimately fall into the hands of buy-to-let landlords who will charge market rents.
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JCW
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Why should they worry about parking at the ground, traffic needs to be kept as far away as possible on a match day. There's parking at county hall, park and ride and all the other car parks. I presume that once built the residents won't be able to complain about the noise and get EH involved as has happened at other places around the city involving pubs and live music....
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Richard_Waugh
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Oh ! Don't worry about car parking for you fans then...
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billythebookie
Saturday, January 28, 2012
They could get a lot more in if they knocked down that monstrosity of a building called Ashman Bank.
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John L Norton
Saturday, January 28, 2012