Inverness Ness-side housing developer lodges plans with Highland Council to alter design and layout of latter phase
A developer is seeking to change its plans for one of the latter phases of a major new housing estate in Inverness.
Tulloch Homes has spent the last few years constructing hundreds of new homes in its Ness-side development between Dores Road and the Holm Mills Bridge over the River Ness.
It has overall permission for almost 450 homes on the wider development.
But it is now seeking to revise one of its phases to reduce that specific zone’s number of properties in response to “changing market demands”.
The existing permission for this phase is for a mix of 41 terraced, semi-detached and detached houses.
However, if its new revisions are approved, that will be altered instead to 25 detached two and one-storey houses, as well as associated changes to landscaping and infrastructure to accommodate the new layout.
In a supporting statement lodged with the application, Tulloch Homes’ agents explain the company’s reasons behind the shift to fewer, but larger, houses.
“This application, changing the ‘private for sale’ housing mix in this area of the site, has been led by changing market demands from prospective house purchasers,” the firm said.
“The application also looks to replace a number of two-bedroom terraced houses with larger detached units to reflect the market demand. These smaller two-bedroom units have been less attractive to purchasers with a number of them having already been transferred to mid-market rental units in earlier phases of the Area A development.
“The application also introduces bungalow house types which had only been limited to the affordable units previously but demand has shown an appetite for this type of property within the private for sale units.”
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