Chorley proposes 62-home Bengal Street scheme
Buildings on a depot owned by the local authority will be cleared and replaced by 10 townhouses and an apartment block.
In plans now lodged by the council itself, working with architect JTP and planner Newmark, the Bengal Street depot will accommodate 62 new homes, with 72 parking spaces, landscaped gardens and a buffer to the A6 and railway.
Chorley’s professional team also includes Stantec on fire, civil, structural and transport engineering, BDP on energy, sustainability and M&E services, and landscape architect The Environment Partnership.
This is one of three schemes included in Chorley’s successful £20m Levelling Up Fund bid, along with a new civic square in front of the town hall and refurbishment of council offices.
The 1.7-acre Bengal Street site lies around 400m north of Chorley town centre, and is close to existing bus stops. Along with the A6 and railway, it is bound by Stump Lane to the south and a decommissioned gasholder to the north.
The townhouses will each be four-bedroom. There will be 36 one-bedroom flats, and 16 two-bedroom flats, with sizes varying.
According to the planning documents, the apartment building will be positioned parallel to the A6, towards that frontage of the site. The townhouses will be in two short rows behind that, with communal garden space in the middle along with parking.
Newmark further points out that Chorley cannot at present demonstrate a five-year housing supply.
The plans are now validated on Chorley’s planning portal and can be viewed with the reference 25/00330/CB3MAJ.
I hope they decontaminate that land properly first. It’s very highly contaminated.
By John Thompson
This will be the start of the downfall of Chorley
By Anonymous
Chorley, please don’t become like every other town. Locals will not be living here
By Anonymous
Another nail in Chorley’s coffin !!!!!
By Anonymous
Chorley is in tremendous debt still the roads are an embarassment resembling a warzone, and realistically cant and shouldnt build more houses unless as in charnock richard last year in which it is rumoured someone on the council recieved a ‘handshake’ in order that a certain develoment went ahead
By Concerned person
Access should be from Dacca Street. Present entrance is to close too Stump Lane
Town houses in line with A6 would replicate what was opposite Hollinshead pub (Clifford Street) before demolition to make way for bypass
By Anonymous
Good use of public money to spend a fortune on consultants? Those names don’t come cheap.
By Grace Short
Looks like the MOT station may be going, shame a good garage to be replaced with more junk
By John Shakespeare
Looks a great scheme, we need more like this to solve the housing crisis…
By Anonymous