'Despair' as 1,100 homes will be built before £250m A38 project

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Councillors have voiced their intense “despair” after allowing a Derby developer to build 1,100 homes without any works to the A38. At a South Derbyshire District Council meeting last night (October 1) various plans relating to the New House Farm development in Mickleover were approved.

This included scrapping a condition meaning only 617 homes of the 1,100 could be occupied by the time a planned £250 million Derby A38 project starts. Granting approval last night, with councillors clear it was being permitted begrudgingly “while holding their noses”, the developers can now build and occupy all 1,100 homes without any works to improve capacity and traffic issues at the A38, primarily at the Kingsway junction.

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