Future of Kingswood up for grabs: Views wanted on Hull estate
OPTIONS on how the rest of Kingswood should be developed over the next 15 years will go out to public consultation next month.
Residents and businesses will get the chance to have their say on the future look of the area.
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Building work first started in the mid-1990s with the aim of providing thousands of new homes and creating a substantial number of jobs through new businesses.
Now, Hull City Council is set to ask people their views on how the remaining undeveloped land at Kingswood should be allocated.
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The results will be used to draw up a new area action plan to coincide with the requirement to secure new planning permission for the remaining sites.
The aims of the 15-year blueprint include:
Building an additional 3,400 homes up to 2028.
Developing a second local shopping and community centre on the eastern side of the estate.
Expanding Broadacre Primary School and, potentially, other schools in the area.
Creating a new park on the eastern side of Kingswood.
Constructing a new link road between Kingswood Parks and Wawne Road.
Attracting new business development near the River Hull.
Improving existing greenfield sites at Bude Park and Foredyke Green.
Alex Codd, Hull City Council's planning manager, said the eight-week consultation would include options for five specific areas of the estate.
They include a suggestion that land previously earmarked for employment close to the existing Kingswood business park should be converted to housing use instead.
Mr Codd said: "A consultation leaflet illustrating the options will be sent to all residents in Kingswood, Wawne, parts of Bransholme, Sutton Park and Waterside Park.
"Walk-in public events will also take place in and around Kingswood at times that are convenient to the public where copies of the plan will be available."
The move to launch the public consultation was agreed yesterday by the council's cabinet.
However, some councillors claimed more detailed work needed to be done to resolve potential problems involving traffic and the impact of developing new shopping areas.
Councillor Phil Webster said he was concerned main roads in the area were already congested at peak hours.
He said: "I have real concerns over the transport infrastructure because there is already a major trunk road running north to south through Kingswood.
"We already have a real bottleneck at a mini-roundabout in Sutton.
"Having all this new development is going to make it ten times worse, yet there is nothing being said about what is going to be done to existing junctions like this."
Comments
by _Snap
Thursday, October 25 2012, 3:59PM
“Would not worry too much about it.Going by how the River Hull was nearly bursting over its banks last week.If its not dredged soon we will have a sunken village to put on the tourist map.”
by foxxjohn
Thursday, October 25 2012, 1:38PM
“Bransholme isn't the largest estate in Europe or the UK, Aylesbury Estate, Hants is. There are no decent shops at all on Kingswood, eateries such as Frankie & Bennys, Chiqutos and Pizza Hut should be closed down for breaking the Bland and Tasteless food act (if there is such an act) and what if you fancy a pint...........nothing of any substance at all.
I had the misfortune of living there for a couple years and all you ever could hear where house / car alarms going off, dogs barking, kids screaming and an endless drone of trials bikes and motorised scooters, invariably ridden by a minor with a skinhead whilst his father (also with skinhead) shouts swear word laden sentences at them.”
by susieb10
Thursday, October 25 2012, 12:10PM
“As Bransholme is the largest estate in Europe it should and Kings wood is part of Bransholme estate,it should maybe have its own ice skating arena, this might be quite popular if the prices are kept reasonable with enough parking to cover any other shops that are put to accompany it, more housing once the flood issue has been sorted, could include some council housing as more council housing in Hull is needed and a recreation hall for the teenagers. In Leeds they have a number of recreation halls for teens which has reduced teen crime in some high crime areas by 45% in the first year. Teens hang about a lot in Hull near shops, in the streets or in the parks, if they had some where to go until a reasonable time parents would know where they was and not just out on the streets.”
by fredflinty
Thursday, October 25 2012, 12:02PM
“Johngt 40
Try not to let the facts get in the way of a good story, Kingswood is owned by Kingswood devolpment company, so how you can blame councillors for the parking is quite laughable, Try reading the signs at Kingswood.”
by johngt40
Thursday, October 25 2012, 2:08AM
“As Kingswood was originally built as an out of town shopping centre it would be nice to be able to park their without any parking restrictions, l no longer shop there because of this! We cannot park in Hull anymore which has all but killed the city centre off, now this extends to Kingswood. Councillors do not have a clue when it comes to boosting the economy.”
by AstynomiaKats
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 9:11PM
“Built it on stilts and re name it Bransholme North ?”
by LittleHobbit
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 3:59PM
“Could not agree more Illaghee, the whole area is marshland and should never have been built on.”
by foxxjohn
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 10:15AM
“Carpet Bombing?
What a souless estate refelcted by the shops, eateries and 'pubs' that are on it. Hull's thick demographic have really bought into the warped rhetorioc of cultured suburban living that has been sold to them by house builders who have come with great names for developments such as Vouge.”
by IllaGhee1
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 9:51AM
“they should draw up plans to stop the flood water off the fields before they start thinking about building more homes.”
by WhoMeNever
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 8:53AM
“Tactical Nuclear Weapon anyone?”