Detailed plans for Warwickshire development submitted for planning permission

The application follows an outline planning permission granted in February 2010 and amended in August 2011. It outlines plans for 276 dwellings; a new retail and community building with 389 square metres of retail floor space and 433 square metres of community floor space, and sports facilities.

The scheme submitted to the Council also includes a full planning application for the erection of eight apartments on a small area of land which fell outside the outline planning permission. The total number of dwellings for the phase is therefore 284, 40% of which are proposed to be affordable housing according to the developers' Planning Statement. 

The outline permission for the whole scheme is for the creation of up to 500 dwellings; up to 150 self catering lodges and 150 holiday homes; a touring caravan site; leisure and sporting facilities, and commercial uses. When the outline application was considered by the Council's committee it was as part of a hybrid application which included detailed approval for the retention of 80,000 square metres of existing industrial floor space and the installation of a new roundabout.The Long Marston site, six miles from Stratford-on-Avon town centre, comprises an overall area of 190 hectares on the site of the former Ministry of Defence Central Engineering Depot which was closed in 1994. 

Consultation on the scheme runs until the end of March and the Council's plans for a decision to be made on the application is 11 May 2012.