Another major housing development will be built in the north west of Newcastle, after councillors signed off on controversial plans for a 900-home estate.
The Kingston Village development won the backing of Newcastle City Council on Thursday lunchtime, despite dozens of objections from locals, environmental activists and rival housebuilders. Banks Property’s plans will see hundreds of family homes built on a patch of former Green Belt land to the west of Brunton Lane, between Kingston Park and Dinnington, as well as a new primary school.
Wildlife campaigners have complained that the £178m project will put “yet more pressure on the delicate ecosystem” in an area that has already been subject to a major transformation over recent years with the development of the neighbouring Newcastle Great Park estate. There has also been a bitter row between Banks and the firms behind the Great Park, who claim that a failure to build a new link road between the two major sites will force people down an “unsafe rat run” country lane.
