Plas Deva

The first development delivered by Castle Green Partnerships, Plas Deva in Meliden, Prestatyn, has seen the site of a former caravan park transformed to provide much needed new homes in Denbighshire.

2.47 acres
Residential development
41 affordable homes

The Plas Deva Caravan Park closed in 2006 and the caravans were subsequently removed from the site, which lies just outside an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Outline planning permission for residential development was granted in September 2008 but various attempts to progress the scheme stalled.

The site has a lead mining history, is steeply sloping and had a population of bats living within an existing ruined building. The technical challenges that lead contamination, old mine workings and the steep topography presented were overcome with a variety of solutions, thus enabling the redevelopment of the re site. A bat barn was constructed to provide a suitable habitat for the bat population.

Castle Green Partnerships received reserved matters approval from Denbighshire County Council in February 2020. Work on the scheme of 33 houses and 8 apartments began the following month.

Construction of 14 rent to own, 12 intermediate rent, and 15 social rent homes was completed in July 2022. The tenure mix covered several areas of need. Rent to own homes are rented to tenants at an affordable rent, with a portion of the rent being saved in an account for the tenant. After five years the money saved is given back to the tenant as a deposit, to enable them to then purchase the home they have lived in for the previous five years. Affordable rent is typically 20% lower than the rent tenants would expect to pay a private landlord for a similar property in the area. Social rent is the most affordable tenure which provides for those who face the greatest financial challenges in society.

Adra director of development Daniel Parry said: “Plas Deva was the first scheme Castle Green Partnerships delivered on our behalf. It’s a solid example of how the partnership approach can work for all parties, enabling a vacant site to be brought back into beneficial use by helping to address local housing needs. It’s paved the way for further schemes, which combined will provide hundreds of new homes for the people of North Wales.”

Along with new homes, Plas Deva also provided a bat barn, almost a quarter of an acre of public open space, a footpath to link to the Prestatyn to Dyserth Way, with local stone frontage and rear boundary walls retained.

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