Charnwood Borough Council aims to develop more than 17,000 new homes over the next 16 years to ensure that demand for housing is fulfilled.

The blueprint highlighted in the local plan will also see 220-acres set aside to develop new offices and industrial space to create thousand of new jobs, in addition to a 180-acre extension to Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park (LUSEP).

Some of those sites include:

  • Three major extensions of Garendon Park, Broadnook and Thorpebury to create 8,355 new homes
  • Over 2,000 new in Birstall, Thurmaston and Syston
  • 2,200 new homes in Loughborough which aims to become the economic, social and cultural heart of the borough
  • 220 acres of employment land – with 37-acres set for offices, and 163-acres for light industrial developments

To unlock elements of the plan developers will be expected to pay around £200m in Section 106 money to help build the new homes – which will be pumped back into the built environment through amenities and infrastructure improvements.

Cllr Richard Bailey, Lead Member for Planning, said: “The Charnwood Local Plan 2021-27 sets a clear path for how the borough will emerge from the pandemic with a programme supporting economic growth, environmental safeguard and healthy communities. This combination will create a place which people of all ages and background will aspire to live, work and play, not only for the next 16 years but far beyond as well.”