Policy S/C/BRN: Land at Barnwell Road and Newmarket Road

• Site area of 1.68 hectares.
• Capacity for approximately 154 (Net additional homes) (172 homes gross) and 500 square metres Gross Internal Area of commercial uses, including retail (Class E(a)), food and drink (Class E(b)) and services (Class E(c)). 

1.  Development proposals must demonstrate how they will meet the following requirements:

     a. Development of the site must respond positively to and not prejudice the delivery of the aims of the wider Area of Major Change (Policy S/AMC/EB: East Barnwell);

     b. The mature street trees on Newmarket Road and Peverel Road frontages must be retained and incorporated into development proposals for the site;

     c. Design of buildings, in regard to height, style and materials, must respond positively to the local character and setting to ensure no unacceptable adverse impacts on the Dynamic Viewpoint M (Stourbridge Common) and the setting of designated assets. Tested and refined through a design-led approach, development should broadly reflect the local prevailing building heights of around two to three residential storeys;

     d. Re-provision, with no net loss in commercial floorspace, of the mix of commercial uses in a Local Centre at the corner of Newmarket Road and Barnwell Road, to provide active ground-floor uses and support the vitality and vibrancy of the wider policy area;

     e. Re-provision of the existing community uses within the site or the wider policy area of Policy S/AMC/EB: East Barnwell (to ensure no net loss), to be made fully available for use before the existing community uses are lost, responding to local needs and the role and function of the local centre;

     f. Re-provision on-site or within the immediate local area of the existing bowls club and multi-use games area of an equal or enhanced standard;

    g. Seek to re-provide the existing temporary homeless units elsewhere within the city.

Figure 28: Site Plan of S/C/BRN: Land at Barnwell Road and Newmarket Road