Another New Development for Syston
A resident sent us this piece about the proposed development, Barkby Fields adjacent to Barkby Road and Queniborough Road, Syston. See map below.
The resident sent the above photograph of the flooded field, see above, saying they had never seen that much water in the field and certainly not surrounding the large tree shown.
The house plan below shows a key to help understanding of the area and to relate to the photograph.
BLUE Arrow – Shows the place that the resident took the photo
RED – The Tree
BLACK Circle – the resident’s area.
YELLOW Dot – the resident’s house
AQUA Circle – The Flood Area of the field that always floods.
Residents feel this needs looking at as where is all this water supposed to go?
If it is to go into the existing Syston Waterways that are already and clearly can’t cope as shown in the resident’s picture above of College Road, Syston.
Let alone other areas in Syston that are still recovering from 2nd January 2024 (Yes 12 months ago) floods.
A more resilient system is needed, not just for Syston, but all surrounding villages that were affected in January 2025.
Building on farm land and flood plains needs reviewing urgently and provisions need to be put in place to protect existing properties, some now can’t get insurance, or sell their properties due to being flooded multiple times. These residents need to be listened to and all agencies and building firms need to work together to protect them from future damage.
The following is the article provided by the resident who contacted the Stn, was written by the housebuilder. If you have comments please forward them CBC or LCC.
A housebuilder has revealed the full details of a 195-home estate that will be built on Leicestershire fields described as a “godsend”. Taylor Wimpey will build the homes on fields off Barkby Road, in Syston, after a planning inspector ruled earlier this year that the development could go ahead.
The company has now submitted full details to Charnwood Borough Council (CBC) about the size and type of the houses planned for the land, of which 59 will be allocated for ‘affordable’ housing. If the latest plans are approved, the 16-acre site will include a “network of public open spaces”, around four acres of green space and an equipped play area, according to Taylor Wimpey.
There will be a mix of homes suitable for “families, couples, single residents, the elderly and residents with disabilities”, planning documents state. There will be four one-bedroom duplexes, 22 two-bedroom duplexes, 25 two-bedroom houses, 80 three-beds, 62 four-beds and two five-beds, they add.
Planning officers revealed last year that “matters around access and traffic had not been resolved”, because CBC was waiting for the local highways authority, Leicestershire County Council, to say whether it was satisfied with the scheme. As a result, the application was not heard by the CBC’s planning committee within Government-mandated timescales, leading Taylor Wimpey to file the appeal.
In her written appeal decision, inspector Rekha Tabu said the homes would result in a loss of countryside that would “alter the open rural character of the site to an urban residential character”. But she said the homes, and the affordable properties included in the scheme, would contribute to helping with the “substantial shortfall of housing” in the UK, and that, overall, the adverse impacts of the scheme would not “significantly and demonstrably” outweigh its benefits.
The site has been allocated for housing in CBC’s draft local plan. A local plan sets out where homes can be built in an area.
At a meeting of the planning committee last August, an agent from Pegasus Group, speaking on behalf of Taylor Wimpey, said the company’s decision to take the application to appeal was not a reflection on the borough council, which, she said, had been “very fair and consistent throughout”.
