John Swift proposes 70 homes in Goose Butts
The housebuilder has chosen the 20.5-acre plot due to the village’s proximity to West Lakes Science Park – the base of a range of science, technology, nuclear, and professional services companies.
John Swift Homes is taking advantage of two outline applications, approved by Cumberland Council in 2023 and 2024, which, combined, gave consent for 70 homes.
Goose Butts is a village found to the south-west of Whitehaven in Cumbria.
Seven, or 10% of the homes, are expected to be affordable build-to-rent homes provided at an 80% discount off the market rate.
Access to the site would be from Summergrove Park. Weaving streets and cul-de-sac offshoots define the scheme’s layout. A central green is also proposed.
Directly to the south of the plot, West Lakes Science Park already employs 2,000 people.
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The University of Lancashire’s Medicine and Nursing campus, international engineering firm Babcock, and the University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute all have sites at the science park.
Alpha Design submitted the plans to the local authority and brought forward house designs. Calderpeel Architects is also on the project, with Barnes Walker as the landscape architect.
Working on the project are Tetra Tech, Whistling Beetle Ecological Consultants, and Beckwith and Hanlon Consulting Engineers.
To view the application, use the planning reference number 4/25/2307/0F1 on Cumberland Council’s planning portal.
