PLANNING | Sefton approves two large extra-care schemes

Wainhomes’s plans for land off Bankfield Lane have been officially signed off after the National Planning Casework Unit decided not to call in the application.

The Jones Partnership wants to redevelop a nine-acre Green Belt site of Elton Head Road south-west of the town centre. 

The council has approved plans for Ultraviolet, a 180,000 sq ft labs and offices complex, while opposing Anwyl’s 233-home redevelopment of Widnes Golf Club ahead of the developer’s appeal. 

Nearly 2,500 homes will undergo upgrades to home heating systems and be fitted with insulation and double glazing because of the funds.

Anwyl Homes Lancashire and partner Widnes Golf Club are looking to build 233 homes and reduce the course’s size, a bid the council has already turned down once, backed by 400 objections.

The housebuilder will begin work on its 178-home Huyton scheme in the New Year after securing consent this month. 

A further £36m is to be committed to building 2,600 homes on brownfield sites across the city region’s six local authority areas.

Sefton Council has given the go-ahead for Castle Green and Forth Homes to develop 206 homes in the village, a project that has attracted more than 400 objections.

Gleeson Homes’ Hillside Avenue development in Huyton and the relocation of a Whitakers Garden Centre will both move forward.