'Stigma' concerns over development with 'too many affordable homes'

THE first full planning application for a housing development on a former greenbelt site has been criticised for having “too many affordable homes” that could lead to people being “stigmatised”.

- NICK HORNER

Plans have been submitted by Living Space Housing Limited for 54 homes on land at the corner of Signal Hayes Road and Fox Hollies Road in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield.

It is the first formal application for homes on the Langley site, a huge swathe of former green belt land which will eventually see more than 5,500 homes built.

The first plot is bordered by a garden centre, a scattering of homes and agricultural land. Living Space Housing is proposing all 54 homes will be 'affordable'.

They would comprise four one-bedroom flats, 22 two-bedroom houses, 23 three-bed houses and five four-bed properties on what is currently agricultural land.