Somercotes 01 BACKGROUND
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Land at Stanley Street, Somercotes 01 BACKGROUND Introduction Gladman Developments Ltd have successfully invested in communities throughout the UK over the past 30 years, developing high quality and sustainable residential, commercial and industrial schemes. These consultation boards illustrate our emerging outline proposals for a new residential development located on Land at Stanley Street, Somercotes (the Site), as shown on the plan below. STANLEY STREET A38 SOMERCOTES HILL SITE GREENHILL LANE SOMERCOTES SELSTON SWANWICK RAILWAY LINE EAST MIDLANDS / NORTHERN Recently Approved Site Boundary Site Location Plan Planning Application JACKSDALE The Site The Need for Housing The Site lies on the eastern edge of Somercotes, immediately to the east of Stanley Street To support the Government’s objective of significantly boosting the supply of homes, and to the north of Somercotes Hill (B600), and is within the administrative area of Amber it is important that a sufficient amount and variety of land can come forward where Valley Borough Council. Somercotes is located 3.4 miles (5.48km) to the south west of it is needed. The Council has a demonstrable need for more housing and additional Junction 28 of the M1 and 10.5 miles (13.35 km) to the south west of the centre of Mansfield. deliverable sites are required by National Policy. Somercotes also benefits from its proximity to Nottingham (15.4 miles / 24.8km) and Derby (15.3 miles / 24.6km). The Application A Sustainable Location Gladman Developments Ltd intend to submit an outline application for up to 180 dwellings on land to the east of Stanley Street, Somercotes to Amber Valley Borough The Site is located in a sustainable location, within a 15 minutes walking distance of the Council in early 2019. This application will establish the principles of development centre of the settlement where the majority of its services and facilities are located. These and determine the access arrangements. New housing will be set within robust services and facilities include an infant and nursery school, primary school, library, village green infrastructure to deliver the following: hall, medical centre, pharmacy, vets, convenience store, post office, public house and a number of takeaway establishments. • Up to 180 new homes of varying sizes, types and tenures (including a proportion of affordable housing). Somercotes also benefits from significant employment opportunities located within Cotes Park Industrial Estate, which sits on the northern edge of the settlement. • A new vehicular access point off Stanley Street. • Retention of the vast majority of trees and hedgerows within the Site and along Somercotes is well-served by a number of bus services, which together provide connections its boundaries. to a number of settlements in the local area, including Alfreton, Derby, Mansfield and • New publicly accessible, attractively landscaped open spaces within the Nottingham. The closest bus stop to the Site is located on Stanley Street adjacent to the Site, including the provision of new recreational routes and the retention of the Site’s north western boundary. This bus stop is served by the 152 service, which provides an existing public footpath within a generous open space corridor. hourly service to Alfreton. The Rainbow One bus service, which provides an hourly service • The potential enhancement of the existing recreation ground located adjacent to Nottingham, also passes close to the Site on Somercotes Hill, with the nearest bus stops to the Site through the provision of a new children’s play area (Local Equipped located to either side of the road some 330 metres from the centre of Site. The nearest Area for Play (LEAP)). railway station is located within Alfreton 2.3 miles (3.7 km) to the north of the Site. The 9.1 bus service, which is served by bus stops located within the centre of Somercotes, provides • Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) located at the lowest parts of the Site to a half hourly connection to the railway station. help manage the flow of surface water during periods of heavy and persistent rainfall. Land at Stanley Street, Somercotes 02 HISTORIC CONTEXT Historic Development In the early part of the 18th Century Somercotes was a small, rural hamlet. However, by this time the local area was beginning to experience the first signs of industrialisation with coal mining starting to become more intensive. However, it was not until the late 18th Century and the early 19th Century that the rise of extensive coal and ironstone mining, together with an ironworks and associated industries, resulted in significant change in the local area. The 1884 map shows how Somercotes was located centrally to Lower Birchwood Colliery, Swanwick Colliery and the Iron Works at Alfreton. As a consequence of Somercotes’ juxtaposition to Birchwood Colliery and the iron works, linear development can be seen leading from the centre of the settlement running eastwards along Birchwood Lane to Birchwood Colliery and south eastwards along Somercotes Hill to the iron works. The 1921 map illustrates how the area continued to grow with the establishment of the terraced streets both within Somercotes and just to the south at Riddings, which were built to house the workers employed at the local collieries and the iron works. The map also shows how the new housing was supported by a range of new facilities, which included a theatre, recreation grounds, a public house, places of worship and a number of allotments, including those which can be seen on the southern field on the Site. The 1955 map reveals how both Somercotes and the surrounding area continued to grow, particularly to the south of Nottingham Road and Somercotes Hill, which included a new school and the area of semi-detached housing in the Windmill Rise area. The 1955 map also shows how Lower Birchwood Colliery had closed by this time. The works at Alfreton and Swanick Colliery were both closed in 1968. Today, the former collieries form the basis of various employment uses, which benefit from convenient access to the M1 to the east. The modern day map shows how Somercotes and the local area has continued to grow so that Somercotes, Leabrooks, Riddings, Swanwick and Alfreton form a single urban area centred upon the large employment area of Cotes Park Industrial Area. SITE SITE 1884 1921 © Crown Copyright and Landmark Information Group Limited 2018 all rights reserved. This map may not be reproduced without permission. 520006874 © Crown Copyright and Landmark Information Group LiOmSit eCdo 2u0n1ty8 Saelrl ireisg:h DtsE rResBeYrvSeHdI.R TEh i1s: m10a,p5 6m0a 1y8 n8o4t be reproduced without permission. 520006874 OS County Series: DERBYSHIRE 1:10,560 1921 SITE SITE 1955 Modern Day © Crown Copyright and Landmark Information Group Limited 2018 all rights reserved. This map may not be reproduced without permission. 520006874 OS Plan 1:10,560 1955 Land at Stanley Street, Somercotes 03 THE SITE The Site occupies three pastoral fields, the two largest of which are roughly A public footpath passes through the Site, running parallel with the aforementioned rectangular in shape and comprise the western part of the Site, whilst the smaller hedgerow which divides the easternmost field from the two western fields. The field is triangular in shape and occupies the eastern part of the Site. public footpath provides a link from Somercotes Hill to the wider countryside to the north east, including to a number of further public rights of way. The three fields are separated by two existing hedgerows. A hedgerow running along a broadly north west-south east axis separates the two larger fields, which meets a north east- south west aligned hedgerow within the interior of the Site separating the two western fields from the smaller easternmost field. The Site’s countryside edges are defined by well-treed hedgerows which provide 3 a defined edge with the countryside beyond. To the west, the Site is bound by a 2 number of houses on Stanley Street and Scott Drive, whilst to the south there are further dwellings located off Somercotes Hill, the majority of which are separated 4 from the Site by deep rear gardens. Immediately to the north is a proposed new development for 200 dwellings which was granted outline planning consent in July 1 2018. The north western corner of the Site is indented by an existing recreation ground, which is accessed via the adjacent housing area to the west. The recreation ground accommodates an existing Multi Use Games Area (MUGA). Map showing Site boundary and photo locations. Internal hedgerow within Properties within Selston Existing vegetation and route of Properties along Norman Road the Site brook along the southern boundary 1 View from the south western corner of the Site looking towards properties along Norman Road and within Selston. Internal hedgerow which borders Properties located along Existing vegetation and route of Saint James Church Existing vegetation along the the recreation ground Norman Road brook along the southern boundary Riddings boundary with Stanley Street 2 Vew from north western corner looking south across the Site towards properties along Norman Road. Existing vegetation along the High point of Properties along Norman Road Area of brambles over Recreation Ground north eastern boundary apprx. 120m AOD disused mineshaft adjacent to the Site 3 View from northernmost corner of the Site which borders the recreation area looking south east across the Site. Land at Stanley Street, Somercotes 04 EXISTING LOCAL CHARACTER Landscape and Visual Environment On a national level, Natural England places Somercotes within National Character Profile 38, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield. The topography of Somercotes typically reflects the low-lying landscape of rolling ridges, underlain by Pennine Coal Measures character of this Area. The Site itself sits at approximately 120m Above Ordnance Datum (AOD) and gradually falls to a low point of approximately 100m AOD, where two small brook corridors can be found, adjacent to the northern and southern boundaries.