Green light for Radcliffe housing
Bury Council’s planning control committee has approved 211 houses proposed by Kellen Homes.
Kellen, which was set up by Renaker managing director Daren Whitaker in 2020, put forward the plans for the 22-acre site off York Street.
Formerly occupied by Unifi Dyed Yarns, the site is close to a Morrisons distribution centre, the grocer being an objector to the proposals. Next and DHL also occupy big sheds in the area.
Approval had been recommended by officers for housing in the southern part of the site, with the northern section to be transformed into an eight-acre wetland and public space.
Kellen’s Bury scheme will generate £9.4m of GVA, according to a planning statement prepared by WSP.
Drawn up in partnership with Seaham Estates and Cantt Pak, Kellen’s proposals supersede an earlier application to redevelop the site from Countryside Properties.
Countryside won permission in 2018 for 153 homes and 80,000 sq ft of employment space at the York Street site.
Another of Kellen’s pipeline schemes, the redevelopment of the former British Vita site on Seaford Road in Salford, also followed proposals from Countryside.
Kellen’s chief executive Ian Kelley headed up Countryside Properties for more than 20 years.
For a time, Kellen’s York Street scheme was the largest in the developer’s pipeline. However, in August, the housebuilder lodged an application for 272 homes on the 13-acre Olympic Freight depot on Bennett Street in West Gorton.
The Radcliffe scheme’s reference number on Bury Council’s planning portal is 68368/FUL.
