Approval for Breck Homes’ £12m pet food factory conversion
Liverpool City Council’s planning committee unanimously voted to approve the housebuilders’ bid to demolish the factory off Sandy Lane in Fazakerley and build 53 homes in its stead.
Every home Breck builds on the 2.7-acre site, which hosted the soon-to-be vacated Fold Hill pet food factory, will be affordable, with 80% of the homes being social rent and the remaining for intermediate rent.
The housing stock will comprise 18 one-, 27 two-, six three-, and two four-bedroom homes and will to be managed and operated by Torus once complete.
Satplan Planning & Development aided Breck with its application, which includes the retention of an existing office building at 204 Longmoor Lane, which will be refreshed for continued office use.
The project has a GDV of around £12m.
Dan King, technical director, Breck Homes, said: “Improving the provision of quality affordable homes over the next 10 years is a key goal for Liverpool City Council and the regeneration of sites such as Sandy Lane will be key to meeting the area’s growing housing need.
“The site is well served by local amenities and transport links and, in addition to 53 new affordable homes, the scheme will include the refurbishment of part of the site’s office building, which will be returned to commercial use.
“We’re pleased our application has been approved at committee and look forward to progressing the development. We will continue to work with Fold Hill to complete the purchase of the site once it is vacated and hope to begin construction early next year.”
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Just north of the site boundaries lies the Farmers Arms pub, which will be unaffected by the development.
The scheme will wrap around the pub at the site’s north. Credit: via planning documents
During Liverpool’s planning committee hearing, the application managed to sidestep objections based on traffic concerns on Sandy Lane to receive unanimous approval.
Prime Transport Planning, IGE Consulting, Enviro Solution, and TSRE Chartered Surveyors are all part of the team delivering the project.
Those interested in the application can view it using the planning reference number 24F/1958 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Not really a conversion if the building is being demolished and new houses built…
By Anonymous
The housing design is very uninspiring, all predictable with no attempt at all to use up to date styles of terraced housing which you see in London these days.
By Anonymous
Sadly just 2 items on the agenda for the planning committee to consider including this scheme. How pathetic that a City the size of Liverpool is struggling to attract developers, and there have been no large-scale applications for months now.
As an aside the 2nd agenda item was the building of a house on prestigious Menlove Avenue, they wanted a swimming pool in the rear garden but the committee refused it…….says a lot doesn’t it.
By Anonymous
Nice to see residents concerns over traffic on an already overload Sandy Lane have been totally ignored. The almighty dollar talks as usual 🙄
By Anonymous