Move to alter mix at Felpham's site six housing development

Developers Barratt and David Wilson Southampton want to alter the mixture of houses and flats in the site six scheme.

The companies are seeking to include more houses and fewer flats to meet the demands of the housing associations which will be expected to buy one third of the properties when they are eventually built.

The proposed alterations are included in a planning application to Arun District Council. They concern 464 of the 700 properties agreed in all for the scheme between the Roundle Estate and Hoe Lane.

An example of the changes they want could see the previously approved 307 houses and 157 flats become 381 houses and 113 flats.

Graham Beck, a director of the firms' planning agent Luken Beck, told the council the existing combination of dwellings was unpopular.

None of the housing associations approached to buy them was willing to do so. They required a slightly different mixture of property types and configuration of the buildings.

"While the number of dwellings remains the same, the mixture of dwellings has changed and some of the layout of houses has changed but not to the extent that any of the road alignments have altered," he states in a letter to the council.

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