Housing Development – UPDATE – Land off Whitehouse Lane | Taylor Wimpey

NEWS AND UPDATES :-

16.01.14Taylor Wimpey North East thank all those who attended the community engagement this week and for all the comments we have received.  We are also collating the correspondence received by those unable to attend and will keep you informed of our progress. 

 

13.01.14A community engagement is to be carried out in the Sports Hall of Durham County Business College from 4pm until 7pm.

 

 

08.01.14In preparation of submitting a planning application, Taylor Wimpey North East will be carrying out Geo-environmental investigative works into the Ushaw Moor Site, and apologise for any inconvenience.

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Planning application for new family homes in Ushaw Moor, off Whitehouse Lane – Former Ushaw College Land

Opportunity for Development

An example of our Taylor Wimpey development in Houghton-Le-Spring, Signet Grange

 

Taylor Wimpey North East is currently preparing a planning application for new family homes in Ushaw Moor, County Durham.

This webpage will be updated as we advance the proposed development, keeping you up to date with our progress.  Should you have any queries or wish to comment on our plans please contact us via the above link.

Taylor Wimpey North East is proposing to develop an area of land to the land off Whitehouse Lane, County Durham.  The site is located north west of the A690 and has close links to Durham City Centre.

We always try and keep local communities informed as we prepare our planning applications and a community engagement forum will be held on the 13th January 2014.  Local residents and businesses will be able to comment on our proposals and representatives from Taylor Wimpey North East will be present to answer any questions and offer an insight into our plans.  The community engagment is to be held at the following venue, please come along to share your views;

Sports Hall, Durham Community Business College
Bracken Court
Ushaw Moor
County Durham
DH7 7NG

Monday 13th January 2014

4.00pm-7.00pm

News and Updates

03.04.14 – A full planning application was submitted Monday 31st March 2014 for 167 new build homes in Ushaw Moor.

16.01.14 – Taylor Wimpey North East thank all those who attended the community engagement this week and for all the comments we have received.  We are also collating the correspondence received by those unable to attend and will keep you informed of our progress.

13.01.14 – A community engagement is to be carried out in the Sports Hall of Durham County Business College from 4pm until 7pm.

08.01.14 – In preparation of submitting a planning application, Taylor Wimpey North East will be carrying out Geo-environmental investigative works into the Ushaw Moor Site, and apologise for any inconvenience.

 

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Anger after speed limit raised outside Ushaw Moor school (From The Northern Echo)

COUNCILLORS are fuming after a committee voted to increase the speed limit on approach to a busy secondary school.

Durham County Council’s highways committee today (Friday, March 8) voted to raise the limit on part of Whitehouse Lane, in Ushaw Moor, from 30mph to 40mph – despite the area being used by vehicles accessing Durham Community Business College (DCBC).

During the County Hall meeting, Councillor John Turnbull pleaded with his colleagues to preserve the current 30mph limit, saying the increase would be very dangerous and totally wrong.

But his calls for further discussions were refused.

Afterwards, Coun John Wilkinson, who also supported the 30mph limit, said: “I’m very disappointed that this committee has taken no notice of what people in Ushaw Moor want.”

The 30mph limit will come into force further down Whitehouse Lane into Ushaw Moor; but Coun Wilkinson said this was “the wrong place.”

The committee agreed the new regime should be reviewed in 12 months’ time; but Coun Wilkinson said this “won’t mean anything”.

Whitehouse Court, which links Whitehouse Lane to DCBC, will retain its 30mph limit.

The change was part of a wider shake-up which will see 40mph ‘buffer zones’ introduced at both ends of the main road through Bearpark to slow traffic in that village.

Bearpark’s 30mph zone will be shrunk as part of this change.

A spokesman for Durham University, which recently temporarily moved its Durham Business School to nearby Ushaw College, protested the latter part of this proposal.

But Brian Buckley, the council’s strategic highways manager, said the 30mph limit at the Ushaw College end of Bearpark ‘lacks credibility’.

Coun Mark Wilkes said he had been pushing for the Bearpark changes for some time, they made absolute sense and should have happened years ago.

The changes were approved by 11 votes to one, with only Coun Turnbull voting against.

As a result of the changes, there will be no 60mph zone between Bearpark and Durham City. The eastern 40mph buffer zone will extend all the way to Toll House Road, where another 30mph limit begins.

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