Metacre advances Great Eccleston masterplan

Applethwaite has secured consent to build 30 houses on a former care home in Blackburn, despite local objections arguing against a loss of open space.

After securing outline consent for 40 houses on the plot, Northern Trust has completed the sale of a four-acre site in Pilling to developer Create Homes.

After securing planning consent last year, the housebuilder has started work to deliver 170 homes in Warton.

The Government body is to provide £200,000 to support the conversion of the grade two-listed Woodtop School in Burnley into housing, working with Burnley Council and registered provider Calico Homes.

Blackpool-based contractor Tyson Construction has been picked to deliver a £10m, 74-home scheme on Troutbeck Crescent on behalf of the council.

Plans for 129 homes on a greenfield site in the Burnley borough of Cliviger have been recommended for approval at next week's planning committee, despite proving controversial locally.

A public consultation has begun on the largest brownfield site in St Helens Council’s emerging Local Plan, Cowley Hill Works, where plans are being brought forward to build more than 800 homes.

The housebuilder has started work on 82 homes on a plot purchased from Network Space, opposite the developer’s 162,000 sq ft employment scheme in St Helens.

The council will give its backing to a masterplan covering a plot near Forton, due to be released for housing development under the borough’s Local Plan.