Persimmon Homes welcomes planning permission for Fiddington site in Tewkesbury

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Peter Davison

Persimmon Homes Severn Valley has welcomed Tewkesbury Borough Council’s green light for 114 new homes on land in Fiddington, Tewkesbury.

Planning approval was unanimously given for the site at a meeting of the Council’s planning committee on the 20th December, with a decision notice issued on 5th January.

The land known as ‘Fiddington Fields Phase 1’ is located to the east of Tewkesbury and south of the residential and industrial development of Northway and Ashchurch.

Persimmon’s initial phase will deliver a mix of apartments, terraced, semi-detached and detached new homes, including 23 one-bedroom units, 32 two-bedroom units, 44 three-bedroom units and 15 four-bedroom units.

The site’s masterplan seeks to create a network of open spaces and green corridors permeating through the new development, linking existing features and surrounding areas of open space and the countryside.

A number of landscape assets will be incorporated into the development, including, but not limited to, hedgerows, trees, grassland, proposed street trees - using Sustainable Urban Tree Planting Systems - existing ponds, attenuation ponds, sports pitches, natural play areas, community allotments and footpath and cycle ways.

As part of the scheme, Persimmon will also build and transfer 39 homes to a local housing association partner.

Welcoming the planning approval, Persimmon’s Managing Director for Severn Valley, Paul Moody, said: “This is welcome news and I’d like to thank Tewkesbury Borough Council for its unanimous approval of our site in Fiddington.

“This scheme will deliver a range of quality new homes designed for local families and first-time buyers who otherwise might struggle to get onto the housing ladder in Tewksbury.

“The design seeks to build upon the site’s assets, landscape character and local context and respond to the issues of ecology, access, landscape and surface water management in an integrated way.

“Our plans will also deliver significant community benefit for local people including significant new jobs, amenities, infrastructure and a substantial social housing contribution.

“We are delighted to secure approval for this scheme which wouldn’t have been possible without the positive engagement of officials, elected members and the local community, and the team at Persimmon, who’ve worked incredibly hard to deliver a scheme that will leave a positive long-term legacy in Fiddington.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.