PLANS have been submitted for nearly 300 homes on farm land in Abergele.

A planning application has been submitted to Conwy County Borough Council on behalf of Countryside Partnerships, a housebuilding and urban regeneration company, for 297 houses on land North and South of St George Road with access from St George Road. Proposals also take in associated public open space, internal highways, car parking, residential gardens, landscaping and associated works. 

The site is currently agricultural farm land and has existing farm buildings to the South which are to be retained and incorporated within the layout. The existing access to the farm buildings is to be upgraded to an adoptable highway, which will provide one of the main access points into the proposed development. 

A design and access statement into plans says: "Countryside Partnerships vision is to create places for people to live, work and enjoy. Whether we are enhancing existing neighbourhoods or creating new communities we endeavour to develop places that are sustainable socially, economically and environmentally."

The vision for the site includes: "Creating attractive, active and lively streets; Demonstrate the development of a site that adheres to national and local planning and design policies; provide a defensive space to every home, providing off-street parking solutions."

The proposed site lies to either side of St George Road and will cover an area of about 24-acres.

Tandderwen farmstead, accessed from St George Road, is located centrally within with Southern portion of the site although this sits outside the development boundary.

The site is bound by new residential homes to the North, with pastoral farmland and Aaron House to the East.

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The homes will be a mix of open market, affordable and private rental homes.

Countryside Partnerships is working with an affordable housing partner to increase the number of affordable housing on site to 61 per cent. 

Each property will benefit from a "secure private rear garden" and will be two and two-and-a-half storeys in height. 

The statement added: "The landscape character of St George Road consists of open rolling farmland with wooded hills. Historic field boundaries are within the site in the form of mature hedgerows that are to be retained and enhanced where possible."