A developer planning on building up to 274 homes on a Spalding site is being told to cough up almost £3m towards the town’s relief road which is currently unfinished.
Seagate Homes has submitted the application to South Holland District Council, but the county council wants the conditions to include the payment.
The county authority is a consultee for the proposal which sees an initial build of 160 homes on land off Monks House Lane.
As the highways and lead local flood authority, the county council has made a number of requests relating to the application.
But by far the most expensive is likely to be the £2.947m ‘contribution’ to the Spalding Western Relief Road which is currently a cul-de-sac and unfinished.
The Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board has also said it wants £397,005 from Seagate Homes to cover the additional pressure on NHS services.
Its submission as a consultee says the resulting population increase would be 1,042 once the homes are occupied.
“An increase in population of 1,042 in the area will place extra pressure on existing provisions, for example extra appointments require additional consulting hours,” says the report.
Both Beechfield Medical Centre and Munro Medical Centre are likely to be impacted by the development.
“All practices that provide care for the region that the development falls within are obliged to take on patients, regardless of capacity,” the report adds.
The money, secured via a Section 106 agreement, would be put towards expanding capacity and the two surgeries or to support an alternative practice ‘to meet the local population health need.’
Seagate Homes applied a year ago, to build 70 homes off Monks House Lane on the Ivanda Nursery site and the district council had to reduce the Section 106 agreements.
The company had been told to pay more than £1m towards the relief road and £36,200 for the NHS, but the figure was reduced.
A subsequent application reducing the total amount by £806,000 was submitted by the company. It also said it could not deliver the 25 per cent social housing required as part of the original approval.
An independent viability assessment found the company should pay a total of £225,000
The move was backed by the district council’s planning committee.
Seagate were asked to pay £561,000 towards the road as 70 homes were passed at a nearby site on in February 2024.
