Firm wants to build up to 3,000 new homes near Haydon Wick

A building firm aims to place up to 3,000 new homes slightly west of Haydon Wick.

Glasgow-based Mactaggart and Mickel has written to all Swindon Borough Councillors about the Swindon Local Plan Review to 2036.

The firm says in its letter: "We are a family-owned house builder with over 90 years’ experience in building homescurrently promoting land for up to 3000 homes at Pry Farm (just west of Haydon Wick), in both the Wiltshire and Swindon Local Plan Reviews.

Of the 3000 homes being promoted, approximately 350 could be on land owned by your council, recognised in your draft 2010 Regional Spatial Strategy; the balance of new homes would be on land in Wiltshire Council’s Purton Division.

Your draft Local Plan Review sets out where 20,450 homes could be built in the borough up to 2036; we believe 350 new homes within the borough at Pry Farm could make a significant and positive contribution to helping councillors achieve this target."

In further support of its proposal, the firm notes: "We would build a full range of community facilities as part of Pry Farm. 

"This could include a primary school and other facilities, which would help take pressure off the surrounding area. 

"We would comply with your council’s open space requirements tomake the area as green as possible. The proposal would include a good amount of landscaped open space helping to achieve biodiversity net gain and being a veryattractive place for people to live."

The company also points our that Pry Farm is very accessible with good links into Haydon Wick and Swindon, and says road improvements would be carried out to allow new primary road access routes offThamesdown Drive.

All residents, the company says, would be able to link into and access existing and new sustainable transport links.

Turning to the implications for various amenities in the area, the letter adds: "Pry Farm’s ideal location just west of Haydon Wick means new homes could sustainably integrate into the established community which has good accessibility to existing local services and amenities in and around Haydon Wick, and further east towards the town centre."