Plans for new homes, shops and health and leisure facilities given green light near Chesterfield despite traffic concerns

Developers will also build a new care home, shops, an open space and health and leisure facilities on land off Worksop Road at Mastin Moor.

Planning permission for the site was given the green light by members of Chesterfield Borough Council's planning committee at a meeting on Monday.

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The site is to the south of existing development at Mastin Moor, and to the east of Woodthorpe – bordered by Worksop Road to the north and the Woodthorpe Road to the south, with Bolsover Road cutting through the site north to south.

Access will be provided by a new signal-controlled junction on Worksop Road and junctions on Bolsover Road and Woodthorpe Road.

Developers say the site will provide ‘new, high quality housing’ in an area ‘that has acknowledged regeneration needs’.

They have also promised improved local services and facilities, ‘including provision for retail, health and other local and community services within a Local Centre’.

Planning officers concluded that because the application was so similar to those already granted for the site, and the land has already been allocated for housing in the local plan, there was no reason to refuse the proposals.

This is despite residents living on Norbriggs Road, The Paddocks and Bolsover Road objecting to the development because of concerns including the impact of increased traffic on the A619, pollution and strain on existing services in the area.

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Phil Shirley said: “The A619 is already overloaded and this development will only add to the pollution and traffic noise.”

Andrea Wigley said she was concerned about high pollution levels, noise and light pollution from ‘many more cars on local roads’.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust said: “We have concerns regarding the wider impact on nearby local wildlife sites and the Norbriggs Flash Local Nature Reserve both in relation to hydrology and to the potential for increased human pressure on these sites.”

As part of the planning permission, Chesterfield Borough Council says it will ensure developers provide affordable housing, pay £247,260 towards GP facilities and fund a survey into possible road safety measures on the B6419 Bolsover Road.

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