Our Vision
An affordable and sustainable development.
A Mixed Community
Our proposals will provide 41 new affordable homes as a mix of rented and shared ownership and include a combination of bungalows and homes of between 1 and 5 bedrooms suitable for those seeking their first home, a home to raise a family or a home to retire to. Our proposed mix reflects the local identified need for the village.
Layout
The houses will be arranged around a new access road that links to Austrey Road and creates a new cul-de-sac within the site.
Homes will face on to the road and the new generous area of public open space which will form the southern part of the site.
The houses will be focussed in the northern part of the site and closely aligned with existing buildings to minimise any feel of encroachment into the wider countryside and will be seen as a natural rounding off of the village without compromising the privacy or amenity of existing residents.
Movement
The houses will be accessed from a new road from Austrey Road. This will require the demolition of an existing bungalow. The new access will be designed to required highway standards and will include footpaths on both sides to allow safe pedestrian access.
Within the site there will be a mix of shared surface roads and private drives, again built to local highway standards. Vehicle and cycle parking, including visitor parking, will be provided in accordance with North Warwickshire Council guidelines. The roads will be suitable for emergency and service vehicles.
Key principles for new buildings
All homes, other than bungalows, will be 2-storeys to reflect the maximum building heights in the locality. They will be designed to reflect local character and form (mainly red brick with pitch roofs)
Each home will have its own generously sized garden.
Buildings will be sited so they comply with the Council’s required separation distances to existing homes.
Each home will include parking (car and cycle) in accordance with the Council guidelines.
Design Response to Local Character
Austrey Road and roads near the site have a mixed character in terms of building heights, materials and appearance, road widths, building form, and the relationship of the buildings to the streets.
Austrey Road itself includes a mix of bungalows and 2-storey houses.
The bungalows which back on to the Site are all set back from Austrey Road with well-defined front gardens. They have a defined building line with the homes parallel with and facing onto the road. Roofs are generally hipped.
On the opposite of Austrey Road, homes have a more staggered building line with the buildings facing the road at a shallow angle. Roofs are a mix of pitch with hips and gable frontages.
Waverton Avenue, which forms the southern boundary to the Site, has a denser urban grain with homes generally being terraced, closer to the pavement edges with a mix of parking on and off plot and parking courts.
Our design response draws on both character areas to provide a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced homes that face directly on to the roads either face on or as gable ended homes. The building lines are generally straight although the curve to the road allows a small reference back to the staggered houses on Austrey Road.
The character and layout of the proposals is at a higher density than Austrey Road to make the most effective use of land in compliance with national guidance but still provides for generous sized gardens and public open space.
The following images show how existing layout and building form has been translated to the proposals:
Character Area One
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Existing Building Form and Line
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Existing Building Line
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Existing Building Form
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Proposed Building Form and Line
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Proposed Building Line
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Proposed Building Form
Character Area Two
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Existing Building Form and Line
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Existing Building Line
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Existing Building Form
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Proposed Building Form and Line
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Proposed Building Line
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Proposed Building Form
Housing Mix
All of the houses will be 100% affordable homes comprising a mix of both rented and shared ownership. The mix has been driven by current local need and is supported by North Warwickshire Borough Councils housing strategy and development officer.
The development will include a mix of 1-5 bedroom homes with the largest proportion being 3 bedroom houses. See the table below for the full breakdown.
| Dwelling Type | Height (Storeys) | Amount |
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| 1 Bed / 2 People | 1 | 4 |
| 2 Bed / 4 People | 2 | 8 |
| 3 Bed / 5 People | 2 | 22 |
| 4 Bed / 6 People | 2 | 6 |
| 5 Bed / 7 People | 2 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 41 |
Housetypes
The development will be mainly 2-storey houses. Four bungalows will also be included. They will be a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced properties. A mix of red brick and white render to match local tones will be used. Roofs will be tiled, pitch, roofs.
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1 Bed / 2 People
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2 Bed / 4 People
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2 Bed / 4 People
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3 Bed / 5 People
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3 Bed / 5 People
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3 Bed / 5 People
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3 Bed / 5 People
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4 Bed / 6 People
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5 Bed / 7 People
Sustainable Development
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The site is considered to be in a sustainable location. Warton has been previously deemed capable of accommodating new housing that helps to support existing services and facilities which are within easy walking distances of the site as well as local bus services that connect to other towns and villages.
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Existing landscape features are confined to the site boundaries. All will be retained in the development.
The proposals provide opportunity to introduce more landscape features and a detailed landscaping scheme will be submitted with the planning application and will include new trees along the road and within the open space. Existing hedge boundaries will be reinforced with new hedge planting including alongside the boundary to the allotments.
The requirement to include sustainable drainage and open space also allows for a variety of planting to be used including meadow/wildflower species and suitable wetland plants. All planting will be native species to enhance the biodiversity attractiveness of the site.
The development will be required to secure Biodiversity Net Gain.
Ecological enhancements will be provided to support local species, subject to the relevant surveys ,and may include bat boxes, bird boxes, hedgehog holes, hibernacula subject to discussion with the Council.
The southern and western parts of the site will be provided as public open space (including the multi-functional sustainable drainage areas).
More than one-third of the site will be open space, free from built development.
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The site is in Flood Zone 1 and is not at risk of flooding. The development will be required to include sustainable drainage systems. The drainage hierarchy is being followed for the site and will ensure that the site will continue not to be at risk of flooding or increase the risk of flooding elsewhere.
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To lessen the possibility of occupiers experiencing energy poverty, the development will be highly energy efficient. This will be achieved through:
buildings being designed to be energy efficient through adopting a fabric first approach
including low carbon/renewable energy contribution from air source heat pumps and solar panels
water conservation measures including suitable fixtures and fittings to restrict water use in line with Council and Building Regulation requirements
In addition, suitable facilities to separate and store waste including recyclables and electric vehicle charging will be provided.
The applicant will operate under the Considerate Contractor Scheme to minimise local disturbance during the construction phase.