Development Proposals Greenways & Newland Avenue, Driffield

 

East Riding of Yorkshire Councillors Fraser, Temple and Owen have great concerns over development proposals for sites on Newland Avenue and also Greenways.

 

Plans submitted to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council detail the proposed construction of two block of apartments totalling twenty units on an undeveloped site at the end of Greenways.

 

Additional proposals have been submitted for a further development of two apartment blocks providing for thirty two and twenty four units on two sites off Newland Avenue.

 

Speaking from the proposed site Cllr Felicity Temple commented, “I am absolutely appalled by these proposals, in my view they are completely alien to Driffield, I urge any concerned resident to write to the East Riding of Yorkshire Planning Department at County Hall, Beverley, HU17 9BA to make their views known.” .

 

Councillor Symon Fraser remarked, “I have no problem with the principle of residential housing, bungalows or normal two storey houses, on these sites but these plans for huge apartment blocks are completely out of character with the area and are unacceptably overbearing on all of the surrounding residents.”

 

Councillor Jonathan Owen said, “It is vital that as many people as possible write to both the Town Council and to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council planning department to make their feelings about these proposals known, I am totally aghast at these plans, they really are not suitable for the locations they are proposed for. We need everybody to work together on this issue.”  

 

Councillor Temple added “We will put all the contact details for the members of the strategic planning committee and of the planning department at County Hall on our website http://www.driffieldintouch.com/ so that residents are able to write to them."