Housing giants seek Warrington success
Redrow has got the ball rolling on a possible 450 homes in Culcheth, while Bellway is looking to add 250 homes to its Golborne Road development.
Planner Lichfields is working with both of the housebuilding firms.
For Redrow, Lichfields has submitted a request for a screening opinion regarding a site off Hob Hey Lane. The council will now decide whether or not an Environmental Impact Assessment is required to be submitted as part of any planning application.
Redrow’s plans are for up to 450 homes, along with open space and site infrastructure, on 47 acres of agricultural land.
The irregularly shaped greenfield site is divided into three parcels, and slopes from the south-west to the north-east.
Parcel 1 is located to the north of the site, with its north west bound by a copse of trees and to the north east by the rear gardens of properties located on Brookfield Road. To the east, the parcel is bound by the rear gardens of properties on Clifton Avenue. The south of the parcel is bound by mature hedgerow, to the south of which is a Public Right of Way. The Culcheth Linear Park lies to the west.
Parcel 2 is located centrally within the site, with Kinknall Hall Farm lying to the east beyond vegetation.
Parcel 3 is located to the south-east of the site, with buildings associated with Kinknall Hall Farm and housing off Swinhoe Place as neighbours.
Two vehicular access points are proposed, one from Clifton Avenue to the north-east into Parcel 1, and one from Swinhoe Place east of the site into Parcel 3.
As for Bellway, the Newcastle-headquartered developer is already on site with 153 homes to the east of Golborne Road in Winwick, a scheme billed as St Oswald’s Place.
As with the Redrow scheme, Lichfields has lodged with the council a screening opinion request, formally asking it to let the application team know whether or not an EIA is required for a 22-acre second phase. An EIA was not required for phase one.
Made up of fields immediately north of phase one, the second stage could accommodate up to 250 homes – the proposed layout at this stage shows 220 homes, but Bellway, working with regular partner Astle Planning & Design, is seeking flexibility should layout plans change.
The site is immediately north of Winwick, 4.5km from Warrington town centre, close to both the M62 running to the south of Winwick, and the M6 to the site’s north-east. Waterworks Lane runs north-south to the site’s east.
Winwick Parish Council is keeping tabs on the situation, posting an update on its website about the status of the plans. Stating that it will “meticulously” review any formal planning material, the body said it will extend an invitation to Bellway to attend an upcoming meeting.
Documents for both of the schemes can be viewed on Warrington Council’s planning portal. The Redrow reference is 2026/00903/SCR, and the Bellway reference 2026/00969/SCR.
Loss of yet more of our ever diminishing valuable greenbelt land.
Thank you Labour.
By Garry Cassidy
Garry – wasn’t this land earmarked for housing under the Conservative government?
By Anonymous
WBC allowing further building to boost rates revenues to repay failed investments. No thought as to the already over stretched infrastructure which is a major problem for the Warrington public
By John
Ruining Winwick as a village. Developers are greedy capitalists.
By Anonymous
No more houses!! Planning for green spaces, that’s a laugh there’s already green spaces there, it’s called green belt!!!
By Anonymous
Please tell us where are the new schools,doctors and dentist going to go, around this area we are full and overflowing and need the farms you keep taking for growing food
By Bennison
Culcheth does not have the infra structure to cope with any more new builds
By Mr D.Suthrland
What’s this thank you Labour, who is actually selling this land to developers in the first place I’m sure it’s not the Council
By Anonymous
No more houses should be built in Warrington until the builders agree to provide funds to improve infrastructure such as new Gp surgeries and a bigger hospital to serve them all of us.
By Anonymous
Agreements to fund infrastructure are standard requirements of planning permissions.
By Julia Hatmaker
There is no such thing as Planning in this country – it’s a laize fairer free for all. No one can stop developers once they decide to build on a greenfield regardless of anything.
By Anon
Stop building on green belt and agricultural land. No requirements for further housing has been demonstrated. What happened to plant trees for climate change. Not only can infrastructure not cope but it will become a flood risk. This must STOP
By Anonymous
More and more green belt lost natural habitat in peril.More cars more choke points further strain on existing roadways.
I would like to know who and from where are these hundreds of desperate ‘homeless’ people originating from? Where will the clinics,libraries,shopping facilities be located in this haven of a development? The same in the dozens of land grabs nationwide plus countless solar panel fields , more agricultural sell off resulting in less food sufficiency.
By Anonymous
Need a new hospital and GP Surgery to many houses being built in areas with limited medical services
By Carol McDonough
These proposals are ridiculous given the present infrastructure in Culcheth Croft and Winwick linked by narrow country lanes. There are not enough dentists or doctors to serve the population as it stands now. Our schools will be over subscribed and where will all the extra traffic go? 450 homes could mean 900 extra cars on the narrow lanes. Culcheth has already got a huge building site near the high school……
Any problems on the motorways or East Lancs road renderers the village gridlocked.
Surely greenbelt land should remain so…. with the present political situation we should be thinking of self sufficiency and using land to grow our food rather than relying on imports. It’s about time people were put before profits!
All these developments bring is extra people and no extra services !
By Lesley Burrell
You should really think about building the infrastructure for all these houses. Schools, hospitals and leisure centres, so people in these houses can live decent lives. Without having to climb into their cars all the time and drive somewhere else.
By Lynne Connolly
Why is this even being considered we still have major disruption on Warrington with the building of houses. Congestion in the morning, congestion in the evening. I for one can not cope with anymore disruption, noise and dust and dirt, no wonder asthma in on the increase here
By Elaine Smith Beck