Some 400 new homes could be built in Carrickfergus
More than 400 homes could be built in Co Antrim amid new plans, it can be revealed.
Oakland (Holdings) Ltd, a company which counts Belfast businessman and developer Gareth Graham as a director, wants to build 406 properties outside Carrickfergus.
The plans include a mixture of houses and apartments as well as associated landscaping, highways and ancillary work.
Full plans have now been submitted for the scheme alongside planning consultancy TSA Planning and Like Architects.
The proposed developed will be based at Victoria Road, Dunluskin, Carrickfergus.
The site cover just over 40 acres, and is currently made up of fields which sit between existing housing developments including Bashford Park and Victoria Rise to the east, Dunluskin Gardens and Oakfield Drive to the west and Glenburn Manor and Old Grange to the south of the site.
A supporting design statement says the “design team have endeavoured to create an attractive, high quality landscape setting for existing and future residents”.
“The primary spine road will be tree lined with a mature landscape frontage creating an attractive gateway to the development.
“Early design proposals set out to ensure that the scheme was inherently landscape led with a green ‘ribbon’ meandering through the site and linking existing and future residents to the woodlands beyond the site boundary.”
It says public open space will provide routes through the development, with a variety of planted species and a play area for younger residents.
“Public open space will equate to 15% of the overall site area and is distributed throughout the development to ensure that it is easily accessible to all future residents.”