NORTH Prospect residents can now take a glimpse at how their new

£168million regeneration neighbourhood might look as plans were

unveiled.

Developer Barratt Homes has submitted its design

proposals to Plymouth City Council which would see the area transformed,

if the first phase of the 10-year plan is given the go-ahead.

These

images show the mixture of town houses and flats proposed for Woodhey

Road that would see the number of properties in the area double.

Homes

in Woodhey would be the first to face the bulldozers in March, if the

£30 million first phase plans, designed by HTA Architects, are approved.

Mike Knowles, director of North Prospect Regeneration, described the moment as "huge".

"This is very exciting and shows the work of six or seven years worth of ideas and conversations put into practice.

"Finally the people of North Prospect will get the quality housing they deserve," he said.

The

"modern and positive" designs, which would see 98 existing properties

replaced by 148, would make North Prospect a place where people would

want to live and work, he said.

The designs would allow people a

choice of properties which would suit all stages of their lives, he

said, preserving the strong sense of community in the suburb.

"Rather

than just the family three-bed homes North Prospect currently has there

would be small properties for first-time buyers, family homes and

retirement properties," he said.

Plans include 54 properties for

social rented housing, as opposed to the 33 currently available. It

would also feature 66 houses for the housing market compared to the 33

houses currently owned by private buyers.

There would also be

the opportunity for residents to have solar panels and extra parking

spaces and new properties would also be better for people with physical

disabilities, he said.

He told The Herald how residents' feedback from consultation events had been fed into the final plans.

"People

had told us that trees are very important in giving the neighbourhood

the feel of a city garden suburb, so we've made sure there are plenty of

trees to break up the concrete," he said. "We hope this comes through

in the images.

"The visualisation will really show people what we have been working towards, paving the way forward," he said.

He

also spoke of an employment scheme that would be championed, ensuring

that some people from the area would be employed locally.

Residents

could today attend a consultation event at the former North Prospect

Primary School building from 1pm until around 4pm.

Residents still have queries

NORTH Prospect residents said they faced a number of different situations with some still unsure of where they would move.

Mother-of-three Zoe Arscott, 33, has lived in North Prospect all her life.

She

is a Plymouth Community Homes tenant and said that while she thought

the new homes would be "nice", her main concerns were that her family

had still not been offered a property they could accept. She is also sad

to see the community broken up.

The Woodhey Road resident said:

"I don't want to move. I was lucky we never had damp in our house, so I

wasn't as unhappy with the living conditions as many others.

"I'm

worried that the community spirit will be gone. In the summer everyone

would be out on the street talking to each other and if there was a

problem, you could knock on your neighbour's door, but everyone will be

broken up. It's like a ghost town around here."

Many tenants have

already moved out of Woodhey Road, accepting offers from Plymouth

Community Homes for their privately-owned homes or moving to other parts

of the city into other PCH homes while they wait for the area to be

re-built. Some will never return, instead settling into other suburbs.

She said that all she wants is the offer of a home that would allow space for a dining table and chairs.

Sally Harrison, a mother-of-five, was also still waiting for an offer elsewhere in the city for a four-bedroom house.

She said she couldn't wait to leave as she thought there were vandalism and drugs issues.

She said: "I'm sure the new homes will be an improvement but not if all the same troublemakers move back."

Jane

Greenwood, 45, said she'd enjoyed her five years living in the

close-knit community but said she was happy with the offer she had for

her privately owned house.

"I feel for families that have lived

here all their lives and for some of the larger families still waiting

for an offer," she said. "But we're happy with our offer and I'm sure

the new homes will definitely improve the area," she said.

The market worker is about to move to a new home in Devonport with her husband.

Nursery

worker Mandy A'lee also said she was pleased with the offer she

received on her privately owned house, but said she still didn't know

where she would live.

She said: "As I split up with my partner I cannot afford to buy another place so I'm to be re-homed by PCH," she said.

"I think generally people wanted to move out as when they come back, they'll move into new homes."

Mike

Knowles, director of North Prospect Regeneration, said that

negotiations were on-going but he was "confident" agreements would be

reached with everyone.

"We have spent a lot of time finding out what people want and we want to respond to their needs," he said.