Saxon Fields

Image: © John Baker Taken: 15 Sep 2019

This is the name of a development off Cockering Road for which planning permission has been granted by Canterbury City Council under application number CA//15/01479. Saxon Fields is an “outline application for a comprehensive mixed use development comprising: up to 750 residential units, in a mix of sizes, types and tenures; up to 4,000 m2 (gross internal floorspace) of Class B1 floorspace; up to 1,000 m2 (gross internal floorspace) of Class A1 to A5 uses. A primary school. Up to 5,000 m2 (gross internal area) of residential institutions, including a building for the Pilgrims Hospices with up to 30 beds and a 60 bed Nursing Home (Class C2). Up to 2,000 m2 (gross internal area of Community and Leisure Uses (Classes D1 and D2). Provision of local recycling facilities; provision of areas of formal and informal open space; installation of utilities infrastructure to serve the development, including flood attenuation works, surface water attenuation, water supply, waste water facilities, gas supply, electricity supply (including substations), telecommunications infrastructure and renewable energy. Transport infrastructure, including an extended westbound slip road on the A2, accesses onto Cockering Road plus a network of internal roads, footpaths and cycle routes. New planting and landscaping, both within the proposed development and on its boundaries as well as ecological enhancement works; and associated groundworks. all matters except for access are reserved”. This section of road lies beyond the top of the slope in the view of this Image

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