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Search the Public Notice PortalA 160-home development is set to go before a planning committee four years after being submitted to the council.
The new housing estate would be built on land between Kendal Parks and the train tracks near Oxenholme station.
Applicant Alan Bell asked for outline planning permission for the ‘up to 160 home’ scheme back in 2022.
It would involve a £96,000 contribution towards transport improvements and a pedestrian crossing at the junction of Burton Road, Oxenholme Road and Heron Hill, as well as a further £160,000 contribution to improve cycle infrastructure between Oxenholme station and the town centre.
The case council planner has recommended the outline proposal for approval due to it ‘complying with local and national housing policy’, being on an already allocated housing site, and subject to a Section 106 agreement being made ensuring that 35 per cent of houses are affordable.
The officer also said the proposed accesses onto the site, which is currently a mixture of grazing land and part of the Kendal Golf Driving Range, are ‘acceptable in principle’.
But the development drew objections from the community and Kendal Town Council.
The town council recommended refusal in comments from November 2023, including concerns about ‘too many houses’, requesting there to be 20 fewer and more green areas.
It also said the development would overlook houses on Howe Bank Close and any entrances to the site would cause bottlenecks and excess traffic through Kendal Parks, which ‘has a problem with parking already’.
Sport England objected because the town would lose a sporting facility in the driving range.
Neighbours of the land submitted 88 representations, 78 being objections and 10 being comments on the application.
Concerns included traffic congestion and increased car parking, construction traffic, it ‘not being the right location for a housing development’ and a lack of existing local infrastructure to support the estate.
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The loss of farmland, fears that Oxenholme and Kendal will merge into each other (despite a ‘green gap’ zone designed to prevent that) and loss of light for adjacent homes were also raised as concerns.
Councillors on Westmorland and Furness Council’s strategic planning committee will decide upon the proposals at 10am on September 17 at Kendal Town Hall.
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