Thank you for sparing the time to visit our exhibition and to provide us with your feedback on our proposals displayed here today.

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1 WELCOME Aerial image of the application site in context Thank you for sparing the time to visit our exhibition and to provide us with your feedback on our proposals displayed here today. Plymouth City Council ( The Council ) has identified an opportunity to deliver new homes, as well as public open space, on the Chaddlewood site. Following a tender process earlier this year, Barratt Homes is now developing plans that respond to this brief. We strongly believe that local residents should be properly consulted and given an opportunity to both ask questions and provide us with their views before a planning application is submitted. We have already met with a number of neighbours to the site and look forward today to receiving a wider response to the plans. Please take a look at the information on display; we re keen to hear your thoughts. Ask a member of the project team for a feedback form which you can either fill in and leave with us today or return via freepost.

2 BACKGROUND Services and Facilities to the site Barratt Homes was awarded the tender to develop the Chaddlewood site, currently owned by the Council, in early We have an option agreement with the Council, which means that if we gain planning permission for our proposals, we will buy the land. Prior to the tendering process, the Council prepared a Planning Statement for the site. This Statement detailed what the Council was expecting to see from developers bidding to develop the site: it proposed building 222 homes and safeguarding space within the site for public open space. We think that 222 homes would be too many and so are proposing a less dense scheme of 191 homes. We fully endorse the Council s proposal for a public open space which is why we are not planning any residential development on the western parcel of land: we want to create a sustainable development and retain much of the character of the area. We will be submitting detailed proposals early next year, having listened to your views and, where possible and appropriate, incorporated them into our final plans.

3 HIGHWAYS AND ACCESS Highway Accesses It is really important that the development is well connected to existing roads and footpaths. We understand that access to the site is of importance to existing residents. As a result, we have carried out an extensive Transport Assessment; during peak hours, out of peak hours, during school rush hours and out of school rush hours. The Assessment has enabled us to have a clear understanding of the existing pressures on the road network surrounding the site, how we might be able to help alleviate some of these pressures and also identify the best access route into the site. Overall, the Transport Assessment has shown that the traffic associated with the development proposals would have a limited impact. We are proposing one main entrance to the site from Poplar Close via Redwood Drive. There would then be two other Emergency Access roads, for the Emergency Services only, which would have bollards across them at all other times. These would be from the top of Redwood Drive and Hickory Drive. Looking at the traffic issues associated with the local Primary School, we have devised a School Traffic Management Plan to improve school parking along Redwood Drive. Other mitigation measures include contributions to the provision of a safe pedestrian crossing and bus stop on Glen Road. We anticipate that we would use the Redwood Drive access during the construction process and we would work to ensure that deliveries do not take place between school drop-off and pick up times.

4 ECOLOGY AND DRAINAGE We will ensure that the new homes are carefully and sensitively integrated into the existing area. Landscaping and ecology is key to this and so we have developed a strategy that will ensure that the development respects the local area and supports and enhances the wildlife and habitat living close by. We have already carried out an Extended Phase 1 Habitat Survey of the site which has identified the existence of slow worms, foxes, deer, hedgehogs, rabbits, bats and common song birds. We will submit a strategy for protecting the wildlife, which will include reptile translocation. In addition, we will be keeping many of the extensive trees, hedgerows and Devon Banks on site and will also be carrying out further ecology studies. The proposals will meet standards as set out in the Ecological Survey and we will mitigate any impacts of the development while enhancing the quality of landscape and ecology. With regards to drainage, South West Water has confirmed the existing sewer network has sufficient capacity to support the proposed plans. Our initial site testing has indicated that surface water generated at the site can be disposed by ground soakaway, and the Ecological constraints plans majority of the development can be positively drained and discharged to the proposed public open space in the form of shallow depth ponds. A small section of the site, to the southwest corner, would use a separate system due to ground levels. This would be via positive drainage to an underground soakaway.

5 SCHOOLS AND DOCTORS Concept Plan presented to the Council If planning permission is granted, Barratt Homes will be required to make a financial contribution to the Council in respect of both education and health services. We are already in discussions with the Council as to what this contribution might look like. We understand that some residents have concerns at the impact the new houses may have on existing schools and doctors surgeries. We have also written to the schools and surgeries in the area, looking at ways we can work with them to ensure they get the support they need to meet any possible future demand, both from our development and others.

6 PUBLIC OPEN SPACE Park Area Concept Plan presented to the Council We are keen to hear your views as to how you would like the public open space to look and what should be incorporated within it. Above is an example of how the park could look and the different features you may wish to include within it. You will find a large plan of the park within the room and we would encourage you to help design the area.

7 CHARACTER Aerial illustration of the informal green We want to create a high quality residential environment that promotes a balanced community, including 30 % of affordable housing. It is also really important to us that the development fits in with the varied housing around the site. After careful consideration as to how we achieve this, we believe that an appropriate density development using a mixture of brick housing and rendering would be best. We would welcome any thoughts you may have materials, colours and architectural details. The proposed development would feature: 191 new homes A property mix including - apartments - two, three and four bedroom houses 30 % affordable housing In order to ensure that our proposed designs for the site were of the highest quality, we sent our initial plans to a Design Review Panel. The Housing Excellence Design Panel is an independent organisation which has conducted reviews in the region since 2005 and which provided us with constructive feedback.

8 NEXT STEPS Thank you for taking the time to attend today. We would be grateful if you would fill out a feedback form with any comments you may have on the proposals. Your comments will be taken into account when finalising our planning application. They will also be summarised and included as part of our planning application to the Council. We expect this to be submitted within the next couple of months. If you would like to be kept regularly updated on the progress of our proposals for the site, please leave your contact details in the sign-in book at the entrance. You can also contact us directly by using the details below.