Councillors are set to approve a delay in constructing a connecting road and bridge for a major 1,300-home development in Eastfield, Scarborough, despite ongoing concerns from local residents.
PLANS to build a bridge for a major housing development for up to 1,300 dwellings are set to be delayed.
The number of houses that can be constructed and occupied before a housing developer is required to build a connecting road and bridge in Eastfield, Scarborough, is set to be increased by councillors.
Kebbell Developments Ltd wants to relax the “trigger for the delivery of the bridge” by allowing the construction and occupation of dozens more houses to avoid pausing construction works.
However, concerns have been raised by local residents who want the developer “held to account and made to actually provide the infrastructure and amenities” it committed to.
The site, on land north of Eastfield, received outline planning permission in 2013 for up to 1,350 properties.
“This scheme proposed that the Deepdale Valley would be traversed by a bridge and indicative drawings showed that this would take the form of a high-level bridge, so that the road would not dip and continue at roughly the same level as the higher land each side of the valley,” a report notes.
In 2023, a hybrid application was approved for around 657 dwellings on land east of Deepdale, and it is the conditions attached to that permission for which a change is sought.
That application sought to increase the trigger point from 640 to 790 dwellings, however, planning officers said the increase would be “unacceptable” as it would result in “significant harm to the amenity of existing and future residents”.
According to a report, discussions were held between officers and the applicant to achieve a “reasonable compromise” to prevent the development from being stalled and to allow Kebbell to complete construction of the current phase.
The new scheme would allow for 693 houses to be occupied “prior to construction of the link road and bridge to allow construction of the current phase to be completed”.
Officers said that an increase of 53 dwellings was a “relatively small proportion of the overall Middle Deepdale development” of up to 1,350 properties.
Local resident Sally Fewster said:
“This bridge was promised as part of the development on both sides of Eastfield.
“When are these developers going to be held to account and made to actually provide the infrastructure and amenities that are part of their permissions to go ahead with the developments in the first place.
“Neither are new sites, yet they continue to delay projects that will benefit the residents of both developments and Eastfield as a whole.”
The developer, Kebbell, said it was “keen to see the bridge and associated link road delivered”.
It added:
“Indeed, the link road through the Kebbell part of the site is being constructed up to the point where the bridge would land on the eastern side of the watercourse.
“However, the pace of construction at the development, to which the bridge will link, has been much slower, and Kebbell is unable to deliver the bridge in isolation.”
The application has been recommended for approval and will be discussed by councillors at a meeting in Scarborough on Thursday, July 9.
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