A developer will learn next week if their plan to build a number of shops, a cafe and a yoga studio on a former airfield will be allowed to go ahead. The proposed development is next to a large and growing housing estate on the outskirts of Market Harborough.
Members of the planning committee at Harborough District Council will deliver their verdict on the proposal to build a 'local centre' on the land at Airfield Farm on Tuesday April 4. The developer says they have come up with a design inspired by the architecture of the town itself.
Davidsons Developments also wants to build 13 apartments above the shops, cafe and yoga studio. Nearly all the flats will have one bedroom, with the exception of one two-bedroom apartment.
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The council approved the most recent phase of the Airfield Farm housing estate last month, giving the developer permission to build more than 170 homes on the site in addition to the 900 already there. The farmland was once home to a number of WWII bomber planes.
In 1943 the site became home to the Wellington Bombers of No 14 Operational Training Unit of RAF Bomber Command. Flight operations ceased in August, 1945, and it later became a British Army vehicle depot. It was turned over to agriculture when the Army left in the late-1950s.
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