A SERIES of affordable housing schemes, including one in Cheriton Fitzpaine, have been given the green light by Mid Devon planners.

Three applications submitted by ZedPods are set to bring another 38 affordable homes to the district, while another will add six more.

Mid Devon District Council is partnering with the Bristol-based ZedPods to bring forward more affordable homes to the area.

Its planning committee approved an 18-home scheme in Bampton’s School Close, a 13-home development in Tiverton’s Holly Road, and a seven-home proposal at Somerlea in Willand on Wednesday, May 8.

All the proposed schemes involve demolishing existing properties and garages at each site, and replacing them with homes that will be available for social rent.

The Bampton scheme will be built on a site where three blocks of concrete houses and a semi-detached bungalow will be demolished. The developer intends to create two pairs of semi-detached houses, which will each be four-bed homes, six homes within two terraced blocks and a terrace of eight homes.

In Tiverton’s Holly Road the 13 new homes will be made up of a terrace if three two-bed homes, with a larger two-storey block of 10 one-bedroom flats.

For the Somerlea development, ZedPods plans to erect a terrace of seven three-bed houses.

The homes in the Holly Road and Willand schemes will have solar panels fitted.

A fourth scheme in Cheriton Fitzpaine, proposed by the council itself, will see another six affordable homes built on a site at Wordland Cross where four existing dwellings will be demolished.

The scheme will be a terrace of six, two-storey homes.

Plans have also been lodged for a similar scheme in Crediton.

Thirteen garages on Churchill Drive could been torn down to make way for three new single-storey ZedPods council homes. Two of the homes would be for one person each and the other for two people.

Mid Devon District Council’s planning committee will likely decide whether to grant planning permission for this scheme the next time it meets on Wednesday, June 12. 

By Bradley Gerrard. Additional reporting by Will Goddard