Planners are set to decide on a major development in Whitehaven this week.
Copeland Borough Council’s planning panel is set to meet at 2pm on Wednesday to give their verdict on two housing bids.
Two applications are set to be discussed as one as they are mutually dependent and both concern land at Harras Road/Harras Dyke.
Both bids have been recommended for approval by officers and councillors will discuss the applications before voting if they wish to approve them.
One seeks planning approval for 85 homes at the site and the other for five.
The applications are both a second, more detailed submission after both were given approval in outline.
Councillors previously considered the two aplications at a meeting of the planning panel on August 31 but deferred them so that they could carry out a site visit before making a decision.
The case officer’s report reveals that the new homes will be served by a single access from Harras Road which will be improved to accommodate footway connections from the site.
Thirteen different house types will be included in the development with detached, semi-detached and terraced houses.
House sizes vary from two to five bedroom and have been planned with a “modern appearance” but informed by the “traditional character of Whitehaven.”’
But Whitehaven Town Council has raised the concern that 90 homes on this strip of land would result in overcrowding and put additional strains on an already weak infrastructure.
Cumbria Highways has not given a final response in the report, calling for more information and amendments on a number of issues.
The lead flood authority has no objections to the plans subject to a drainage scheme being implemented in response to their comments at a previous stage of the planning process.
In its response to the proposal, Electricity North West said: “The applicant should be advised that great care should be taken at all times to protect both the electrical apparatus and any personnel working in its vicinity.”
