Elan, Anwyl team up for 25-acre Helsby housing
The housebuilders own roughly 50% of the Chester Road site each and are planning to build 222 homes between them.
Elan Homes and Anwyl land have lodged a planning application to redevelop the 25-acre plot between Chester Road and the Chester to Warrington railway line.
The two parcels are divided by Blue Bridge Lane. Parcel A is owned by Elan and is earmarked for 126 homes. Parcel B is Anwyl’s and could accommodate 96 homes, according to the plans.
The properties planned are a mix of one-bed apartments and two, three, and four-bed houses; 100 of the homes would be affordable.
Hourigan Planning is advising the applicants and APD is leading on design. Full consent is sought for both plots, which the developer’s argue meet the criteria for Grey Belt.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number 26/00878/FUL on Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning portal.
I’m sure we’ll see negative comments, but a lot of amenity on the Helsby-Frodsham corridor, rail to Liverpool and Manchester, motorway access, decent local retail.
By Rich X
Unacceptable, so many new builds already available in helsby and not selling.
By Anonymous
Dear Mr Developer, once you have finished building these houses, collected your bonuses, and disappeared into the sunset, what are the existing residents left with? I’ll tell you. Overstretched medical services, schools that are already full, a railway station with insufficient parking as it is, and yet more traffic on the A56, and the loss of food-producing farmland. But not to worry, there’s ‘a lot of amenity on the Helsby-Frodsham corridor’. Perhaps you would like to come and live here for a while once your little boxes are complete, and see for yourselves.
By Larry Boyd
Will the infrastructure I.e. doctors, dentists, school expansion or frodsham school rebuilt also be planned in at some point. I don’t recognise Helsby anymore
By Hughes
@Larry- developers only care about money and the Planning Inspectors always side with them. The whole system needs reforming with all costs and benefits considered and the Planning Inspectorate abolished, it’s a waste of money.
By Frank