Warren Road 360 homes move a step closer as Sandleford Park West gets rubber stamped

The planning application for the phased delivery of up to 360 dwellings at Sandleford Park West New Warren Farm have now been finally rubber stamped by West Berklshire Council.

This will mean the demolition of Warren House and other buildings and the widening of Warren Road to provide access through to Andover Road.

The full approval for the scheme was given back in May 2024, but the paperwork has just been published, with conditions on how the development will progress attached.

The council has insisted on more details on how the road will be changed and how the construction will be managed.

Emergency access via Kendrick Road will also be created.

Forty percent of the homes will be ‘affordable’. The make up consists of two bed flats (10 per cent), two bed houses (20 per cent), three bed houses (42.5 per cent) and four bed houses (27.5 per cent).

The Sandleford Park West site has no school proposed, whereas there is a school proposed at the larger neighbouring site.

There are also no shops or amenities planned for the West site, prompting further fears from residents that traffic would also increase as people drove to the shops.

The applicant, Mark Norgate of Donnington New Homes, says first show homes would be up by summer 2025, with 60 units a year built after that, completing in spring 2032.