New homes go-ahead for Brixham greenfield site

Twenty new homes will be built on a greenfield site in Brixham.

Torbay Council planning committee gave its unanimous backing to the plan for land off Pilgrim Close.

A company called Northern Trust Land said the proposal would fill in an existing gap, with homes on three sides of the plot and Brixham AFC’s football pitch on the other.

Fifteen of the homes will be sold on the regular market and the other five will be classed as ‘affordable’.

Exact details of the new homes will be considered by the committee at a later date, when they will also examine provisions for badgers on the land.

The decision to give the plan the green light came during a meeting which also saw a plan for homes on a ‘brownfield’ site at St Mary’s turned down.

Cllr Anna Tolchard (Con, St Peters with St Marys) said it was strange to be allowing building on a greenfield site not designated for housing in the local plan so soon after turning down a proposal for a brownfield site already earmarked for housing.

But, she said: “This site is a natural progression from the Pilgrim Close development alongside.”