Peterborough plans 20,000 homes and New Business Parks
Peterborough City Council has published he following suggestions for the City of Peterborough
- A 135 hectare rail-freight interchange at Magna Park, east of Stanground.
- More than 5,000 new homes and 65 hectares of employment land as part of the Great Haddon urban extension to the south of Peterborough.
- New proposals to build 460 homes on the former Freeman’s site, in Ivatt Way, by the A47 Soke Parkway.
- The safeguarding of land in Hampton for the possible building of a railway station in the future.
- Scrapping of permanent gypsy and traveller sites originally earmarked for Eye and land west of Stanground.
- Houses planned in Oundle Road, Alwalton, increased from 122 to 210.
- Provision for a cycle and walkway between Wansford and Wisbech via Peterborough.
- 65 new homes off Sandpit Road, Thorney, which had been previously rejected by the council are now back on the agenda.
- Building of a 30-hectare business park at Red Brick Farm, south of Oxney Road, Eastfield; a 40-hectare business park at Alwalton Hill; and two extra hectares at Lynch Wood.
- Number of homes earmarked off Thorney Road, Eye, cut from 250 to just 60, with a small space for employment land.