A PLOT of land spanning approximately 35.38 acres is up for sale in Burnham-on-Sea as part of a wider agreement for the joint promotion of a 200-acre site for a huge expansion of the north eastern edge of the town.
Multiple landowners across the 200-acre site hope to use it to provide over 2,000 new homes, as well as accompanying schools, infrastructure and improved flood defences.
The landowner consortium agreed and signed terms with a PLC housebuilder for the promotion of the land last year.
Plans are in place to promote the land into Somerset Council's forthcoming Local Plan, with the aim of submitting a planning application in the next few years.
The land currently for sale sits to the East of Braithwaite Place, leading directly onto Berrow Road.
It's currently used for agricultural purposes, so benefits from being level.
The majority of the total consortium land sits between Stoddens Road to the south and Brent Road to the north.
Discussions regarding the development of the wider plot of land have been ongoing for some time, but Somerset Council's existing Local Plan already outlines the land as a 'potential area for future growth'.
A spokesperson for the estate agent selling the 35-acre plot as part of the wider development, Connells Land & New Homes, explained: "There is particular local interest in construction of a new road through the land in order to alleviate traffic congestion along Berrow Road.
"Before the unification of the local authorities to create Somerset Council, Sedgemoor District Council produced a Sedgemoor 2050 Transport Investment Strategy, which was adopted in July 2019.
"As part of this plan, it referenced a scheme to produce the new road, reference HW15.
"Somerset Council are in the early stages of designing their forthcoming Local Plan and it is the aim to see this land allocated as a preferred housing site for over 2,000 new homes."
The proposed site of the town expansion is located just six miles from the planned electric vehicle battery giga-factory in Woolavington, known as Gravity, which could create over 7,500 new jobs, according to the Salamanca Group who acquired the site in 2017.
The factory would require a substantial number of new homes in its nearby vicinity to house workers, many of which could eventually reside in the new homes planned in Burnham-on-Sea.
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