A Government inspector will decide whether plans to build 38 new homes in Barrow can go ahead after a housing developer lodged an appeal against the council’s refusal of the scheme.
Mullberry Homes have submitted an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate after Westmorland and Furness Council refused its planning application for the development on land north of Sherborne Avenue.
There will be a hearing as part of the appeal process, although a date for the event is yet to be arranged.
The council refused the scheme in June 2024 because it said the proposals did not deliver high quality design required by the local plan.
It said: “It appears tightly packed and cramped, utilises standard dwelling types, with inadequate dysfunctional parking arrangements, a lack of useable public open space which benefits from surveillance, including play space, and it would fail to compliment the adjacent rural landscape and green wedge.
“The result is a scheme which appears to be based on quantity rather than quality or good urban design principles, and lacking assimilation into the context of the area.”
Mulberry Homes said the development would have range of two to five-bedroomed properties with four affordable homes.
But the council added there was no evidence the proposed number of affordable homes would meet the needs of a registered provider or the local need.
A previous outline planning application for a housing development on the same site was approved but the date to submit reserved matters has now expired.
