Plans have been lodged for a shopping parade, convenience store, apartments and a care home on a new-build Ingleby Barwick estate.
Tiviot Way Investments Ltd is hoping to build the new facilities at Little Maltby Farm, on a patch of land north of Melandra Road on the Avant Homes estate.
At the heart of the proposed development would be a new local centre, featuring a 4,000 sq ft convenience store alongside four shops (1,000 sq ft each) and an outdoor terrace area.
These new south-facing stores would be for “day to day convenience shopping” as well as ancillary services for the local community.
The site of the proposed development in Ingleby Barwick (Image: GOOGLE)
The site – which was previously used for horse grazing but is now unused – is located beside the entrance to Miller Homes’ Beckside Manor estate, and opposite Ingleby Manor Free School and developer Bellway’s new-build estate.
Residents on the new build estate currently have one nearby store in the form of an Asda petrol station, although its nearest shopping parade is the Beckfields shopping parade, which is around a 15 minute walk away.
The developer also wishes to build a 60-bed three-storey care home adjacent to the local centre for people who “require extra care and want to remain in the area of Ingleby Barwick”.
The location of the care home is also intended to be next to the community facilities of the local centre, with pedestrian facilities for better access.
The building would be set back from the two storey Little Maltby Farm by 28m minimum and by 40m from the haybarn.
Tiviot Way Investments Ltd has also proposed to develop up to 40 apartments in a new three-storey building, earmarked for the north east of the site.
Each section of the proposals would house its own car park, with open land planned to be left behind the shopping parade featuring sustainable drainage systems.
It is proposed that the site will be accessed via an extension of Melandra Way, as well as a junction off Welwyn Way.
While further details on designs of the building will be submitted, planning documents state how the layout has been “sensitively designed to create an attractive urban design approach that assimilates with the existing residential character of adjacent developments”.
Ingleby Barwick is currently home to several shopping parades; these include Sandgate Park in The Rings, on Lowfields Avenue, Beckfields Avenue, and Myton Shops, which is located opposite the Tesco supermarket.
The estate is also home to several care homes, including Ingleby Residential Care Home on Lamb Lane and the Roseville Care Centre on Blair Avenue.
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A conclusion in the design and access statement, prepared by 3DReid, states that it aims to “deliver a successful, and sustainable development”.
It hopes that the site will “support all ages of the community, as well as the provision of new and enhanced connections to the wider area”.
Stockton Council will now make a decision on the application.