Airfield homes plan to go on show

New plans to build hundreds of homes on a former airfield in Staffordshire are to go on show this weekend.

Evans Property Group wants to build 750 homes on Fradley airfield, near Lichfield.

The firm already has planning permission for industrial development there.

But planning chiefs at Lichfield District Council believe there is potential to reallocate the site - which was once home to RAF Lichfield - to provide up to 1,000 new homes.

Evans Group has drawn up plans for the development. It would also include a primary school, nursery and health centre.

Construction is likely to take around seven years, but it is not yet known how many jobs would be created, how much the scheme is likely to cost or when a full planning application will be submitted.

The proposals will go on show at an exhibition in Fradley Village Hall on Friday between 4pm and 8pm, an on Saturday between 10am and 2pm, when outline plans and concept drawings will be on display.

A previous exhibition was held in March last year.

Jonathan Porter, senior planner at Barton Willmore, said: "The plans are still in transition, and we are talking to the council on an ongoing basis, but we are talking in the region of 750 dwellings.

"The district council have broadly identified Fradley as having the potential for up to 1,000 dwellings.

"There is an opportunity to use some of the existing employment land to accommodate some of that number.

"This exhibition is really just about telling people who have previously expressed an interest where we have got to since then."

RAF Lichfield was constructed during the Second World War.

It was used mainly as a maintenance base and to train air crews.