Consultation begins for 4,200-home South Warrington Heys
Homes England is seeking feedback on its vision for 617 acres south-east of the town as it aims to agree a development framework with the local authority in the new year.
A third consultation has now opened for the 4,200-home South East Warrington project, recently renamed as South Warrington Heys.
South Warrington Heys would sit to the south-east of Warrington town centre and will take an estimated 20 years to fully deliver.
One of the largest land holding for Homes England, it would become six distinct neighbourhoods: Stockton Heys, Witherwin Heys, Lumb Brook Heys, Broad Heys, Pewterspear Heys, and Stretton Heys. These would be connected by off-road cycle and pedestrian routes.
Designs by SLR provide for the building of two primary schools, a secondary school, leisure hub, shops, supermarket, and community services hub.
Of the proposed 4,200 homes, 30% would be affordable. There would also be later living residences incorporated into the masterplan, which would provide for homes ranging from one-bed apartments to four-plus-bed detached houses. More than half of the residences are expected to be delivered by 2039.
The development framework would also emphasise public space, with at least 99 acres of new public realm created. This would include 52 acres of parks, 5.7 acres of allotments, three large playgrounds, 11 smaller play areas, and grass pitches for rugby and football matches.
Prioritising sustainable travel, there would be new public transport services provided on dedicated public transport lanes. The scheme is also set to feature a variety of travel hubs, which could be large enough to include cafes and shops on their premises.
In addition to SLR, the project team includes WSP, Savills, Less Roxburgh, RealWorth, Meeting Place, and Commonplace.
“South East Warrington represents an opportunity to meet local housing need by creating a series of well-connected and inclusive neighbourhoods,” said Simon Herring, Northern development director at Homes England.
“Since our initial engagement with the community in 2024, we have received a significant amount of feedback and this has helped to shape the draft proposals that we are now sharing with the community,” he continued.
“We look forward to receiving further feedback from local people, before we finalise the development framework ahead of its submission to the council for agreement next year.”
The consultation exercise ends 15 December. To contribute, visit southeastwarrington.commonplace.is.
..will anyone be able to get the affordable homes.. or anyone afford the others..
By Anonymous
Is this a joke? The infrastructure round that area is completely broken , this is a ridiculous plan.
By James T
Too many houses and not enough infrastructure, open space and community facilities in the plan
By Keith smith
Agree with the other comment about infrastructure. Major traffic and road issues in the area already.
By Warrington Local
What about water provision & sewage. Other housing projects have ended up reducing water pressure for existing homes.
By Anonymous
Infrastructure? Already backed up
By Anonymous
Have they all gone mad the town is losing all its green spaces the hospital can’t cope there’s more sewage going into the river than ever water pressure down peel holdings only interested in more money not the quality of our environment they build on golf courses football fields they can’t even tidy our swing bridges how much power have these people got
By Anonymous
Ridiculous. The destruction of more of our countryside.
By Darrell
How will road links feed into Warrington via Stockton Heath? All routes az present lead to inadequate bridge over canal.
By Anonymous
The whole of the Warrington area is being swamped with new homes without any infrastructure like a new hospital being thought about
By Anonymous
Meaningless tick box exercise. The template for the SE expansion has already been set by the Appleton Cross development: high density, poor quality houses with no architectural merit and not one single improvement to local infrastructure and services. There are estimated to be over 700,000 empty houses in England (over 1 million estimated for the UK). Why are over 4,000 new builds required to be built on what’s left of the green space around Warrington? Still at least it’s a change from another set of Warehouses…….
By Photosbyianb
A bloody joke, what happens when we need land to feed ourselves and 30% affordable is disgusting
By Tina liversage
Sewage provision must be made BEFORE development starts to prevent pollution,
By Anonymous
Please enact the suggestions by Grappenhall & Thelwall parish Council for the development.
Also bring back the proposals for a high level bridge. This development cannot be successful when it is served to the north by 2 single lane bridges built in 1763. The land is still clear to be built on as in the original New Town Plan.
By John