Hull City Council has approved plans for 84 affordable homes to be built in east Hull.
The application, which was submitted to the council over a year ago, details plans to build a range of detached, semi-detached, and terraced houses on a currently unused piece of land off Balham Avenue near Neasden Primary School.
The remanence of a former housing estate which sat on the land can still be seen in the form of an abandoned network of streets. These include Teddington Close and Northolt Close, which remain in place despite the former houses having been demolished.
The 84 homes, all of which will be affordable homes, will have between two and four bedrooms and will each have two car parking spaces, according to plans submitted to the council.
Towards the centre of the development there will be an open green space which plans state “accommodates draining requirements.” The open space will be directly accessible from Balham Avenue and be open to all.
Documents submitted to the council state: “One of the key themes set out in the layout is to create a network of shared spaces and private drives to aid pedestrian and cyclist movement across the development.”
(Image: Hull City Council Planning Portal)
The main access point to the development will come from Balham Avenue itself. To the east of the site, Balham Avenue meets Bellfield Avenue from where vehicles can reach the development site. Pedestrians will also be able to access the site from the south.
The plans describe the development as seeking to “enable regeneration of the Balham Avenue area by providing much-needed affordable family housing”. They add it will be “a high-quality residential development that delivers a 100 per cent affordable scheme with a strong identity that benefits from its immediate landscape qualities whilst proposing a strong landscaped theme.”
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