Nottingham City Council has submitted plans to build 19 affordable homes on two parcels of brownfield land at Robin Hood Chase in St Ann’s.
The full planning application covers land off Livingstone Road, Aster Road and Robin Hood Chase, including a larger site occupied by former retail premises and a smaller site containing two garage blocks and a district heating substation.
The existing buildings would be demolished and both sites cleared. Planning documents state that the heating substation would be relocated before demolition to ensure that the district heating supply is maintained.
The proposed development would comprise four two-bedroom flats, three one-bedroom maisonettes, five two-bedroom houses and seven three-bedroom houses.
All of the homes are described as affordable housing. Although the design statement refers to a mixed-tenure development, its housing schedule lists all 19 properties as affordable rent, with no shared ownership homes included.
The homes would be two storeys high and built as semi-detached properties, short terraces and small blocks of flats, all with pitched roofs.
The scheme includes 28 parking spaces. The housing schedule shows no allocated parking for the four flats, three spaces for the maisonettes, seven for the two-bedroom houses and 14 for the three-bedroom houses. The wider design statement says each dwelling would have one or two spaces, creating an apparent inconsistency within the submitted document.
One of the most significant changes would be the reopening of the road between Livingstone Road and Aster Road to vehicles and pedestrians.
The council is also proposing to seek highway adoption of part of Livingstone Road and offer the development’s two shared-surface access roads for adoption. Existing pedestrian connections across the site would be retained, including routes linking with Robin Hood Chase.
According to the design statement, opening the route between Livingstone Road and Aster Road would improve local connectivity and remove the need for additional vehicle turning areas, allowing more space for landscaping.
The latest proposal follows earlier plans for the wider regeneration of the Robin Hood Chase local centre. Outline planning permission granted under a 2010 application established a framework for a mixed-use redevelopment involving community, health and council services, shops, commercial space, offices and housing.
The current application is a separate full planning application and is not a reserved matters submission linked to that earlier permission.
In 2023, Chayah Development Project nominated Unit 22, Unit 26 and the former St Ann’s Library as Assets of Community Value. The nomination secured five years of Community Right to Bid protection for the buildings, but the planning statement notes that this does not prevent their demolition or redevelopment.
On 20 May 2025, Nottingham City Council’s Executive Board approved the principle of, and funding for, decommissioning and demolishing the remaining Robin Hood Chase shops. At that stage, the council intended to provide approximately 15 council homes on the larger parcel of land.
The latest application increases the proposed total to 19 homes by including both parcels.
The scheme has undergone pre-application discussions with planning officers, urban designers and highways representatives, with changes made to the layout and house designs following feedback.
The submission of the application does not mean planning permission has been granted. Nottingham City Council will consider the plans and supporting technical documents before making a decision.
