Council approves 316 homes as part of development

Permission to build more than 300 homes as part of a development near a city have been approved by a council.

Peterborough City Council approved the homes on Tuesday, which will form part of the Great Haddon development near Yaxley, Cambridgeshire.

The wider project was approved by the authority in 2015, which included building 5,350 homes, a shopping centre, three primary schools and a secondary school.

The authority has now given permission for the final 316 properties to be built off the Yaxley Loop Road, which is now referred to as Lodge Way.

A planning statement was submitted by Carter Jonas on behalf of the developer David Wilson Homes, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

It said the new homes would be of "high quality and sustainable design" and would provide a "seamless transition" from the project's phase one, which saw the construction of 347 homes in the east of the area.

Out of the 316 homes approved to be built, 265 will be private market housing and 51 will be affordable homes.

The properties will be a mixture of one to five-bedroom homes.

The construction of a 420-place primary school in Great Haddon is due to begin in the late summer and finish in September 2026, subject to planning permission being granted in July.

Last month, the Department for Education appointed Hampton Academies Trust to operate the new school.

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