More homes planned for a Doncaster village next to site where 400 are being built

Avant Homes wants to build 72 homes between Doncaster Road and Lings Lane in Hatfield along with landscaping, public open space, means of access and car parking.

Construction is already underway on 400 houses next to the proposed development.

The development comprises 72 dwellings in a mix of two to four bedroom dwellings of two storeys in height, with the exception of one house-type where six units are two and a half stories high.

Doncaster Council planners have received five letters of objection to the development on a number of issues.

Residents objecting raised issues such as overcrowding, overdevelopment, loss of trees and hedgerows and impact on amenities such as schools and doctors surgeries.

Hatfield Town Council, that can give opinions but has no say in the outcome, also put forward an objection.

Council clerk Clare McRoy said the authority believes this is ‘an over-intensive development’ of the site and has concerns regarding the ‘safety of access and egress’ onto the surrounding roads.

If approved, the developer will have to provide 16 additional primary school and 11 additional secondary school places at a cost of just under £400,000 in a Section 106 agreement.

Doncaster Council planning officer Nicola Elliot, said: “Officers have identified no adverse economic, environmental or social harm that would significantly or demonstrably outweigh any benefits identified when considered against thepolicies in the National Planning Policy Framework taken as a whole.

“It is considered that subject to the recommended conditions, there are no material considerations which indicate the application should be refused.

“The proposed layout offers adequate protection of residential amenity as a result of its design and layout, and will be of a design which sits sympathetically with existing development, being seen as a continuation of built form.

“Whilst the scheme does not provide the full 15 per cent public open space on site, there is provision of a local area of play on site and small area for informal plan, combined with access to large areas of public open space on the adjacent site, which on the whole is considered acceptable.”

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