Long-awaited £40 million plans by Red Kite to knock down the abandoned Castlefield star blocks and replace them with 188 homes will be decided days before Christmas.
Red Kite Housing is hoping for planning permission to build the homes off of Pettifer Way and Chairborough Road in High Wycombe.
The plans were first mooted back in 2011 when Red Kite took over Wycombe District Council’s housing stock.
The huge regeneration project was initially due to get underway in summer 2017 – but a planning application was only submitted to Wycombe District Council to consider in May this year.
An end to the long-running process could finally be in sight - as the council’s planning committee has scheduled a meeting on December 18 to make a decision.
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The meeting will be held at the council offices in Queen Victoria Road at 6.30pm and is open to the public.
If given the green light, the empty and dilapidated blocks of flats will be knocked down and replaced with 66 one-bed flats, 66 two-bed flats and two three-bed townhouses on the northern site and 24 one-bed flats, 24 two-bed flats and six four-bed houses on the southern site.
They would all have associated car and cycle parking, gardens, play space, public open space and landscaping.
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