Another homes plan for Drakes Broughton near Worcester

A new planning application by Michelle Hubball would see 25 new homes built on a paddock behind a home known as Freshfields off Stonebow Road in Drakes Broughton near Worcester.

The latest plan comes after two controversial plans to build 42 homes in two different parts of the village have been met with criticism from residents.

More than 50 objections have been made against a plan by Lone Star Land to add another 30 homes to the 110-home Sanctuary Housing estate known as The Orchards which has already been built off Worcester Road.

The 30 homes would be built on fields behind a row of homes in the village’s Stonebow Road near to St Barnabas CE First and Middle School.

Objectors said the new homes would put further strain on the village’s services and said Drakes Broughton had seen ‘more than its fair share’ of housebuilding in recent years.

One objector, Corinna Wilcox of Walcot Lane, said: “Our village has done enough to satisfy the rural development plan in my opinion. This project would destroy a pretty piece of land rich in wildlife. Not to mention further strain on the infrastructure of our village.

“More cars parked at the shops. More cars on the roads.”

Drakes Broughton Parish Council also came out against the plan saying it was “unsustainable.”

“The land is outside the boundary of the neighbourhood plan and abuts the new Sanctuary Housing development which is not even complete yet and has several homes still for sale,” the objection read.

Another controversial plan for 12 homes next to Drakes Broughton Village Hall has also returned after being turned down a combined four times by council planners and government planning inspectors in the last five years.

However, the land in question has now been included as a potential site for homes in the ongoing and much-delayed review of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) which sets out where tens of thousands of homes will be built around the county in the next two decades.