Cabinet to Consider Hereford Bypass Routes

[megilleland]

Phone in about the Hereford Bypass today. Listen to recorded programme - Elliott and Toni at Breakfast on Hereford & Worcester Radio - 29 days left to listen.

[ragwert]

Please can you tell us where it is written that 50-55% must be affordable homes on the Three Elms site? Sounds very unlikely. As you say, what developer would build 1200 homes on that basis? Not enough profit for them.

 

I think it's the other way round, they need to build the houses at Three Elms to get levies from the developers to help pay for the bypass.  But its true that the bypass is planned to open up even more land for housing. And all that extra traffic will make city congestion and air pollution much worse than it is now.  We won't get the nice fast bypass that some people seem to be imagining, it will just be a road through housing estates. Just like they've done to ruin Worcester.

Found it....Taken from Hereford Times when plans for development were made public in 2016 although the plans show 35%.

 

While the precise housing mix will depend upon market conditions and Herefordshire Council’s priorities in terms of affordable housing provision, the planners have released an indicative housing mix.

They propose 55 one-bed flats, 29 classed as affordable, 101 two bed flats with 55 affordable, 218 two-bed houses and 118 affordable, 226 three-bed houses and 122 affordable, 133 four-bed houses and 71 affordable, and 47 five-bed houses with 25 affordable.

 

Just over 50%