Chorley waves through 97 homes, pushes affordable scheme back
Two applications were put before the local authority’s planning committee on Wednesday, with the larger Woodlands regeneration project passing easily, while a decision on the 57-home Westchurch neighbourhood will be settled another day.
Woodlands Conference Centre, Southport Road
Chorley Council approved its own plans for the regeneration of Woodlands, with help from planner Newmark Gerald Eve.
Approval means consent has been given for the construction of 97 homes on the 10.4-acre plot off Southport Road.
At least 30% of the 97 homes designed by Ross Peedle Architecture are to be affordable.
Around four acres of the site would be kept as grassland and used as public open space.
To view the application, use the planning reference number 25/00476/CB3MAJ on Chorley Council’s planning portal.
Land east of Charter Lane
The scheme lies directly south of another Westchurch Homes development. Credit: via planning documents
Approval for the 57-property second phase of Westchurch Homes development is to be delayed following a unanimous decision to undertake a site visit before further discussing the application.
The neighbourhood would provide 57 affordable homes to Charnock Richard.
All of the 3.7-acre scheme has been designed by MPSL Planning and Design. Plans were lodged with the local authority on Westchurch’s behalf by Maybern Planning and Development.
A housing mix of 12 one-, 12 two-, 21 three-, and 12 four-bedroom homes has been outlined.
Access would be provided via phase one to the site’s north off Charter Lane.
The scheme lies roughly five kilometres south-west of Chorley town centre and will provide parking for up to 108 vehicles.
Bowland Tree Consultancy and Collington Winter are also working on the application.
Those interested in the application can view it using the reference number 25/00457/FULMAJ on Chorley Council’s planning portal.
Affordable to who? Affordable is very subjective. Those with financial muscle have a better chance of affording than lower paid will ever have. The Building companies don’t care who the can afford. What society needs are a return to Social Housing and an end of “buy to let”
By Barry Skelhorn
The roads around Charter Lane are not suitable for a development of this size and local amenities are lacking but if Chorley Council rejects it after a site visit the applicant is likely to be successful if they take it to appeal going off past decisions.
By Dom
We await the traffic carnage from phase one, especially at school times.
By David Woods