The 171-bedroom development will include six buildings of four and five storeys
Essex-based housebuilder Weston Homes has gained planning permission to build its third residential development in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, consisting of 171 new homes.
The £40m scheme will be located on a 1.15-hectare brownfield site which in the 1950s housed a gas holder. The original structure has since been decommissioned and dismantled.
The Tayfen Road development will consist of six new four- and five-storey buildings.
It will provide 68 one-bedroom and 103 two-bedroom apartments, 31 of which will be affordable housing.
The development is located in easy walking distance to the centre of the historic market town, with good transport links from Bury St Edmunds station.
The new buildings will pick up on the local architectural and industrial heritage, with the pale bricks intended to match nearby buildings.
The plans include extensive bicycle storage as well as new pedestrian and cycle routes.
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“There remains a huge lack of new housing in South East England in relation to demand,” Bob Weston, chairman and managing director of Weston Homes, said in a statement.
“This new development will help to meet much needed market sale and affordable housing provision in the locality.”
Weston has two other residential schemes in Bury St Edmunds, Harland Court and Tayfileds, both in close proximity to the Tayfen Road site.
The £240m-turnover Weston Homes recently opened a brand-new £45m robotised offsite housing factory in Essex with capacity to supply 4,000 homes a year.
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