Welton, Melton & Wauldby Parish Council
Local Information
The Extent of the Parish
The parish covers a large area, which has a variety of land uses. It extends northwards for about three miles from the Humber to include Wauldby, to the east it reaches to the outskirts of North Ferriby at Long Plantation: the eastern boundary extends northwards over Melton Hill where it adjoins Swanland. To the west, Welton is bounded by the Parish of Elloughton-cum-Brough: from the junction of Kidd Lane with the Beverley Road, the boundary skirts around the village and crosses the A63(T) close to the footbridge and runs parallel to Common Lane before swinging somewhat to the west before it crosses the railway line and the airfield. To the south, the parish extends approximately two thirds of the way across the river towards Lincolnshire.

The area to the north of the A63 is residential and open countryside whilst to the south the land was, at one time, predominantly agricultural. As soon as the Melton Grade Separated Junction has been completed, almost all of the land bounded by the A63(T), Long Plantation, the river and Gibson Lane will be developed for industry.

Much of the remaining land is what is now classed as “brownfield site”.

The most well-known of the brownfield sites is the area between Common Lane and Welton Road, Brough which was once covered by greenhouses and which is now being developed for housing. About two thirds of this site for which outline planning permission was granted lies in the Parish of Elloughton-cum-Brough whilst the remainder is in Welton. When completed, the development will provide some 1300 dwellings ranging from one bedroomed apartments to grand, six bedroomed houses.

Almost all of the land from Skillings Lane in Brough to Long Plantation and between the railway and a line drawn along the main runway of the British Aerospace airfield is scheduled in the Local Plan for light industrial development.

At present, there is no adequate road access to this land but, with the continuation of the Brough Relief Road due to open in two years time, and the Grade Separated Junction at Melton, due for completion in 2006, it is expected that substantial changes which will have a far-reaching impact on the Parish.

Regretfully, this development will do little to encourage a return to the self-contained shopping centre around the pond which was once a feature of Welton village.


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