A 99-home housing development, proposed to be created on a 14 hectare site next to the Folly Inn has become public.
The site known as Folly Works, is proposed to be renamed to Folly Reach.
The proposed development is substantial comprising of
- Housing – made up of 19 two-bed; 42 three-bed; 21 four+ Bed houses and an additional 17 two-bed Flats/Maisonettes. A total of at least 282 bedrooms.
- Alongside this a 64-room hotel covering 5,603m2
- Parking for an additional 310 cars and 84 bike spaces
- A 121 m2 restaurant
- A new pier
- An office of 651m2
- Storage space covering 158m2
- A leisure area of 273m2
- Something named Zone of Tranquillity
- Creation of an Island, labelled Bird Island
New jobs created
The paperwork states that 164 new full-time positions will be created by the development.
Development company
The development is by a company called Feria Investments Limited. Based in Jersey, it was founded in January 1991, around 23 years ago.
OnTheWight left a message in an attempt to contact the company this morning, but as yet, we’ve not heard back from them.
How to mitigate against flooding
With all of the recent flooding across the south, we wanted to understand from the developers how they planned to mitigate against the fact the development would be within an area at risk of flooding.
Two other points of interest might be that it’s an area with ‘Protected and priority species’ and ‘Designated sites, important habitats or other biodiversity features’.
The planning form also reveals that it’s suspected that either some or all of the land is contaminated. Not that surprising given its industrial past.
Extensive amounts of further information can be found on the planning site
Proposed development
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Image: Folly Reach Website
