Plans to create new 24 Queen Street, Haverhill, two-storey building for apartments lodged with West Suffolk Council

Plans to create a new two-storey building to house apartments in a town centre have been lodged.

Kingsfield Leasing Limited submitted its proposals to West Suffolk Council for the land behind 24 Queen Street, in Haverhill, on October 8.

The site currently houses a hairdressers on the ground floor and a self-contained flat above; the new apartments would be immediately behind this.

The application site and the existing units are separated by corrugated iron fencing with a gap between to allow people to walk through.

The existing fencing would be removed to create the new two-storey, red-brick rectangular building that would house two one-bedroom apartments.

A planning statement said the proposals, combined with the space available, could be accommodated on the site ‘without any substantial impacts’ on the existing amenity of neighbouring properties.

Pedestrians and cyclists would access the site via Murton Slade and Queen Street itself.

The statement said the apartments would deliver a ‘wholly appropriate residential development of an underused, previously developed site’ in a sustainable location.

It added it would boost a sector of the housing market where there is substantial unmet demand.

Haverhill Town Council is due to discuss the plans next week.

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