Stewart Milne kicks off 15-acre Fylde housing scheme

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.

Working with Trafford Housing Trust and L&Q, Seddon Construction has kicked off a two-year build which will see an initial 120 homes delivered in Whalleys South, Skelmersdale.

The housebuilder has put forward a hybrid application for up to 280 homes as part of Blackburn’s wider Gib Lane masterplan.

PWA Planning has gained planning approval for 174 homes on behalf of Kier Living, within a larger development in Farington Moss.