New bid to build 230 homes at Shrewsbury site
Developers have resubmitted controversial plans to build more than 200 homes in Shrewsbury.
Persimmon Homes has put forward revised proposals for a site off Shillingston Drive, in the Battlefield area.
The original plans submitted in July 2011 were for 250 homes but attracted hundreds of complaints from residents.
Concerns were raised about building next to an area of woodland known as Lion Coppice as well as worries about the extra traffic that would create along Shillingston Drive going up to the busy Battlefield Road.
In the revised proposals the number of homes has been reduced to 230. An extended eco-park along the site's southern boundary, a play area and several ponds are also planned.
Tim Brickley, director in charge for Persimmon Homes West Midlands, said residents' concerns had been listened to and the number of affordable homes had been cut from 50 to 35 and the number of overall family homes from 250 to 230.
He added that the possibility of putting in signals at the junction with Battlefield Road had been looked into, but highways engineer felt they could cause "unnecessary delays along both roads".
A report in support of the proposals by the SCP transportation planning and infrastructure design consultancy said the current junction of Shillingston Drive and Battlefield Road should be able to accommodate additional traffic from the new housing development.
The revised application comes after plans were unveiled last week to build 550 homes west of Hanwood Road in Radbrook, stretching up to the bottom of Mytton Oak Road, close to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
