A company called Homes For Life wants to buy the golf course from the council to build over 1,000 homes, reports Nick Clark, Local Democracy Reporter
Plans to sell Crowlands Heath Golf Course for housing are set to be confirmed by Barking and Dagenham Council leaders.
A company called Homes For Life wants to buy the golf course from the council to build over 1,000 homes. Members of the cabinet are set to approve the sale next week.
Proposals say the council received “no objections” to the sale during a public consultation.
The council currently owns the entire golf course at Rush Green, but leases it to Crowlands Heath Golf Club.
Homes For Life asked to buy the land from the council last year after already reaching an agreement with the club.
It said its plans for a housing development on the site – two thirds of which are in the borough of Havering – include building 1,106 homes.
Of these, it says 60% would be social housing and 40% for “key workers”, particularly NHS staff.
Roughly 230 of the homes would be on the Dagenham side of the site. Proposals also include a supermarket, a lakeside comminity space or cafe and a “green” foot and cycle path through the development.
Council leaders first agreed to sell the site in October last year. The town hall then ran a public consultation on the sale. This is separate to Homes for Life’s consultation on its development plans.
The council says it placed notices of the sale in the Barking and Dagenham Post and Romford Recorder newspapers. It also posted a copy in the window of the Barking Learning Centre.
The deadline for representations was 27th February. Cabinet papers say the council received no responses by the deadline.
The committee is set to confirm its approval of the sale at a meeting on Tuesday (24th).
Developers will still need to receive planning permission from both Barking and Dagenham and Havering councils if the sale is approved.
