Barratt and Banks submit Phase 2 Cottingwood plans
The housebuilders have submitted reserved matters applications for their parts of the wider Homes England project on the former St George’s Hospital site in Morpeth.
Barratt David Wilson will be building 48 homes on its site, Phase 2B, which sits to the west of the new St George’s Hospital, close to other housing and a school.
The housing mix will be made up of three two-bed, five three-bed, 35 four-bed, and five five-bed homes, seven of which will be affordable.
Banks Homes is proposing 52 dwellings across Phase 2A and 2C, to also include road infrastructure, car parking, and landscaping designed by One Environments.
Its land is in two parcels, separated by the constructed spine road that serves the wider Cottingwood site and sits next to Phase 1A of the development, which comprises 260 homes currently being delivered by Barratt David Wilson.
Banks’ housing mix is made up of four- and five-bed homes, none of which will be affordable – Homes England has said the overall site wide requirement to deliver 15% affordable housing will be delivered via other phases of Cottingwood.
Located in Northumberland, Cottingwood is on the northern edge of Morpeth around 1.5km from the town centre and measures 118 acres, of which around 100 acres has been split into development phases.
The masterplan allows for 875 homes in total and was defined by landscape structure and green spaces, such as a duck pond that doubles up as drainage at the arrival of the site; a 2km fitness track called The Racecourse, which connects the green spaces of Cottingwood, Cotting Green, and Howburn Green; and a village green.
The wider project team includes Avison Young, Cundall, and Ryder Architecture.
At the end of April, Homes England submitted plans for Phase 3 of the development, which will amount to 500 homes.
