Anwyl finds Bury success

The housebuilder has secured consent for 98 homes on part of the Bevis Green Works site, the rest of which is being taken forward by Barratt.

Formerly occupied by car care products business Tetrosyl, the Walmersley site now has consent for 268 homes in total, a permission granted in February 2020.

While Barratt is pressing on with remediation, culvert and general site preparation works under the terms of its consent, it has since agreed to sell the 7.4-acre southern part of the site to Anwyl Homes Lancashire.

Revised plans for this part now mean an overall reduction in the whole site’s volume, from 268 to 244 homes.

Planning officers at Bury Council gave a minded to approve recommendation for Anwyl’s plans, which were then given unanimous approval at planning control committee on 11 October

Avison Young is working for Anwyl as planning consultant, having also represented Barratt earlier in the project’s life.

The development site is around 1.5km north of Bury town centre, between Walmersley Old Road and the M66.

Anwyl’s plans are for two three-storey apartment blocks, containing 12 homes in total, and housing, which will mostly be three- and four-bedroom. Officers said that broadly, the layout and arrangement of the proposed scheme follows that of the previously approved project.

With Tetrosyl having departed, the overall 26-acre site qualified for a vacant building credit, meaning that the affordable housing allocation for the whole site is just 30 homes. Of this, 18 will be within Barratt’s allocation, and 12 in Anwyl’s.

The planning application reference on Bury’s planning portal is 68069.