Timeline
Landowner and Promoter (Christchurch and then Persimmon Home) submit Planning Application for Land at Candlet Road for 560 homes. Eventually refused by East Suffolk Council Local Planning Authority.
March 2015ESC cabinet decision to continue to provide leisure facilities to district and refurbishment programme begun.
2016Public Inquiry Process - Land at Candlet Road
September 2016Land at Candlet Road – permission granted by Secretary of State at appeal
August 2017Initial Issues and Options consultation on the Suffolk Coastal Local Plan carried out by the Local Planning Authority
August 2017 to October 2017ESC as a Landowner, responded with a proposal for the Garden Neighbourhood called the ‘Felixstowe Leisure Vision’ this was based on the relocation of the Leisure Centre being the driving force of wider residential growth in this area.
The East Suffolk Leisure Team undertook a consultation on the options for future Leisure provision in Felixstowe
February 2018 to April 2018This received nearly 1000 responses.
First Draft Local Plan consultation carried out by the Local Planning Authority
July 2018 to September 2018This included the proposal for the allocation of up to 2000 homes as the North Felixstowe Garden Neighbourhood.