Councillors reject proposals to build 150 homes on the former Co-op site.
The old Co-op in Corby town centre has been derelict since 2016At a meeting on Wednesday, a planning committee atDeveloper Glenrowan Homes had pitched the project as a "high-quality, multi-storey building".about parking, noise and pressure on local amenities.Local Democracy Reporting Service
said that one resident told the committee: "We all need enough space to live and protect our general health and well-being. "In established inner cities where space is severely limited there might be a need to squeeze in cramped high rise developments like this, but in Corby this is not the case."Labour councillor Alison Dalziel, who was on the committee, said the site needed regeneration because it was an "absolute tip".
But she struggled to name any other development in Corby that was six storeys high, and said: "To have something as imposing and as dense as this looks - I just don’t feel that it’s the right thing for what is actually a quite small piece of land." She added: "To think of 350 to 400 people living on that piece of land just, to me, does not make sense.""We’ve got people in our office who commute daily from Derby because they can’t find rented accommodation.As part of its refusal, the committee cited overdevelopment, high density and the likely impact on neighbouring residents
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