Planning permission granted for 112 homes in Brigg

A decision has been made on plans for 112 homes in Brigg. Gleeson Homes applied in 2024 to build the development on nine acres of arable land, off Grammar School Lane and to the immediate south of M180.

North Lincolnshire Council has granted planning approval to the scheme, which is on land long-allocated for housing. The development will comprise 16 two-bed detached bungalows and semi-detached homes, 70 three-bed and 26 four-bed homes, but none of which will be affordable housing.

A total of 224 car parking spaces would be created, and there will be landscape buffering, particularly on the northern side that is adjacent to the M180. A submitted planning document estimates the scheme would support the employment of 334 people, including three apprenticeships, and bring in £1.3m in annual tax revenue.

A number of conditions are attached to the planning permission granted. These include no development beginning on site until the details are finalised for proposed junction improvement works at Grammar School Lane.

There are a number of wildlife-related conditions too, including bat roosting features to be installed on 15 per cent of homes. What is not required from the 112 homes scheme is a single home to be affordable housing, where a property is sold or rented at 80 per cent of local market value or lower.

This is as a result of Gleeson submitting early on in the application process a financial viability assessment. This suggested the scheme could not go ahead with any affordable homes or S106 cash contributions from the developer.

The council has accepted it cannot expect 20 per cent of properties to be affordable housing, or £1.2m in S106 contributions, but still expects the developer to pay some cash to community infrastructure. The draft S106 agreement tied to the scheme requires the developer to pay £720,000 in total as it progresses.

The majority of this, almost £460,000, would go towards local primary and secondary schools. The rest of the S106 cash split comprises:

Just over £98,000 for leisure and specifically improvements to Ancholme Leisure Centre and Brigg Recreational Ground.

£63,000 towards increased provision at Riverside and Bridge Street GP surgeries.

Over £54,000 to recreation and specifically, to enhance Woodbine Park in Brigg.

£40,000 to expand Brigg’s town bus service.

£4,000 for highways matters related to the development.

The council is also seeking to add a clawback mechanism in the S106 agreement to allow it to claim a greater contribution from the developer, should the scheme exceed financial viability expectations. This would be for further educational cash, or to support affordable housing off-site.

In the application’s planning statement, Peacock and Smith did state on behalf of Gleeson that its homes are “priced so that they can be afforded by 90 per cent of local couples in full time employment”. There has been multiple developer interest in building on the land off Grammar School Lane.

Last year, Bellway Homes withdrew plans for 266 homes, which would have involved development on part of the same site. They confirmed they had withdrawn the plans, which represented an extension of their existing Buttercross Meadows development, because of the boundary overlap with the Gleeson 112 homes scheme.