New images have been released of homes that are to be built on the edge of a lake in Cornwall.
The computer generated pictures are included in a reserved matters planning application for the second phase of the West Carclaze Garden Village development on the outskirts of St Austell.
It provides details of a 'sub-phase' of phase two, which will see 127 homes being built as part of the wider development.
Eventually there are planned to be 1,500 homes built at West Carclaze and there will also be a 350-acre country park. Outline planning permission is already in place for the overall development.
Work has already started on the first phase of the development which will also include a new primary school.
A new computer generated image of the lakeside village
The phase two site is to the north of the Garden Village area and runs alongside the A391.
In the images some of the homes are shown to face the Great Terverbyn Lake on the site.
A design and access statement submitted with the latest application explains that the development will include two community gardens.
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The document states: “The development will include two attractive community gardens with natural play and views of the lake helping to promote social well-being, improved mental health, connection with the landscape/natural world and a more active lifestyle. These gardens form an integral link of the necklace of community gardens proposed across the whole of the Garden Village.”
It will also have “excellent facilities” for cyclists and pedestrians and the layout of the homes and gardens has been influenced to benefit from solar energy.
Image of the planned second phase of the West Carclaze Garden Village in St Austell
The new phase will also have strong links with the first phase of the garden village which will have the primary school, nursery, workplaces and community facilities.
All the homes will also have “high fibre connections so residents can work from home, reducing their need to to commute to their workplace”.
The houses have also been designed to use “high levels of energy conservation and to maximise the benefits of passive solar energy, generous daylighting and renewables technologies”.
No date has yet been set for when a decision will be made on the reserved matters application.
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