Inland Homes has been given the go-ahead for plans to deliver its £200m Gardiners Park Village in Basildon, following the signing of a Section 106 agreement
The consent for Gardiners Park Village follows the resolution to grant planning permission received for the site, subject to the signing of a Section 106 agreement, announced in May 2021.
The planning permission enables the delivery of up to 700 new homes, together with 25,000 sqm of commercial space, new school and community facilities.
The estimated gross development value of the 54-acre site is in excess of £200m.
Gardiners Park Village will deliver 31% affordable housing and is being provided through a public/private partnership approach with Homes England.
Inland Homes signed a development agreement with Homes England, which has a majority interest in the site, in April 2020 and will acquire the land in phases over a five-year period.
‘A thriving new community’
Chief executive of Inland Homes, Stephen Wicks, added: “Inland Homes has once again demonstrated its skill and tenacity in securing planning consent on complex challenging sites to deliver the much-needed homes England needs.
“The granting of this planning consent at Gardiners Park Village means we can now begin to transform what has been a vacant, brownfield site for the past 40 years, into a thriving new community with 700 homes, of which nearly one third will be delivered as affordable.
“We look forward to continuing to work with Homes England in the delivery of this important scheme.”
Construction of the first phase with detailed planning consent, comprising 74 homes, is expected to commence in early 2022.
