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Search the Public Notice PortalPlans have been submitted for the development of four new homes and the renovation of an existing farmhouse in Whitehaven.
The applicant proposes to build a mix of three and four bedroom homes across 0.45 hectares of land at High House Farm in Greenbank.
At the same time as the proposed houses are built, an existing farmhouse would be renovated after the demolition of nearby agricultural sheds.
Access to the property is currently via Gameriggs Road which the applicant's architects, Ashwood Design Associates, intend to retain.
The site is located east of the Edgehill development in the south west of Whitehaven which is said has the biggest population and broadest range of healthcare, education and public transport services in Copeland.
High House Farm's location is allocated for housing and there is a target in place to build 109 houses in the surrounding area.
The former farm lies within a Coal Authority High-Risk Development Area, however, no recorded shallow coal workings or mine entries were found to exist beneath the proposed developing during a Coal Mining Risk Assessment.
Identified by the Environment Agency as a Zone One area for flooding, the site is considered to be low risk.
Ashwood Design Associates also say that the existing farmhouse would remain the "focal point" of the proposed development.
Each house would feature its own "generous private garden" which they say will allow residents to "enjoy the site's semi-rural setting."
With a minimum of two off-street parking spaces planned per house, the four-bedroom developments are proposed to include an additional parking space within an integral garage.
Describing their proposed development as a "thoughtful response to the existing site and surrounding landscape" the architects add that the houses' elevated position would offer exceptional views of the Lake District National Park.
Planned to feature a mixture of off-white render and red sandstone with the existing boundary hedging retained, the intention is that the new homes will "integrate seamlessly" with the local area.
The High House Farm's developers hope that their plans will "contribute positively to the character and vitality" of the surrounding area by delivering "an attractive, sustainable, and contextually appropriate residential development."
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