Fradley Community Building Needs a Group to Fund It by March

Overview

Bloor Homes is looking for a community group, charity or business to take on the plot set aside for a community building on its 211-home Fradley development. Expressions of interest close at midnight on Wednesday 31 March 2027. Bloor provides the land and the services; the group that takes it on has to pay to build the facility and run it. If no workable offer comes in, the plot becomes more public open space.

Fradley will get a community building on Bloor Homes’ new estate only if a local group or business can raise the money to put it up. The housebuilder has opened a five-month call for organisations to take on the site (Bloor Homes Fradley community asset page).

The plot is part of the outline planning permission granted in November 2025 for homes east of Church Lane, on the north side of Fradley Lane. Bloor says it has since submitted detailed plans for 211 homes, 59 of them affordable, under reference 26/00442/REMM, and that they are awaiting a decision (Bloor Homes Fradley).

What Bloor is offering

The site is 0.1 hectares, about a quarter of an acre. It sits in the middle of the new neighbourhood, in public open space north of the estate’s main street. A parking area would front it, with a bus loop across the road.

Bloor will bring these to the plot boundary:

• a road connection
• a power supply
• fibre broadband
• mains water
• foul water drainage

It does not offer to build anything on it. Organisations that get through the first stage must show they can fund the facility “to a point of practical completion, as well as the long term stewardship of the asset”, Bloor’s page says.

What it could be used for

Bloor lists these as examples:

• a community or parish council hub
• community healthcare
• a community cafe
• a space to meet and socialise
• remote working
• childcare or education
• hospitality
• a flexible mix of the above

The timetable

Once chosen, a partner has eight weeks to exchange contracts, which can be stretched by up to four more. It then has six months to submit detailed plans for the building, the page says.

Why it matters in Fradley

Residents have asked for a community building since the scheme was first put to the parish. Notes of Fradley Parish Council’s meeting with Bloor in December 2024 record that “residents expressed a strong desire for a community building” (parish council meeting notes).

The parish council asked then whether Bloor would pay for the building or only provide the land. The notes say Bloor had “no plans to be actively involved once the site is completed”. The same notes record that Bloor would not build a pub on the estate either. The parish council pointed out that Fradley “has had many developers promise the construction of a pub, yet nothing has been built to date”.

The new call answers the parish’s question. The land and connections come from Bloor. The building has to come from someone else.

What it means for you

• If you run a group or business that might use the space, the first step is a short online form on Bloor’s community asset page. It asks for a contact and the proposed use. Bloor says filling it in is not binding and no business plan is needed yet.
• The real test comes in April. Anyone who registers interest will be asked for a business case showing how they would pay to build the facility and keep it going.
• If you live in Fradley and want a building on the estate, the deadline matters. If no viable interest arrives by 31 March 2027, Bloor says the plot “will revert to being provided as additional public open space”.