Bellway’s Litherland project set for approval

Litherland is attracting a lot of young people from Crosby as there’s no room to develop in Crosby. Hawthorne Road is looking much better. I’d like to see Sefton focus more on regenerating places like Linacre Road – lots of character and potential but still quite run down.

Great news but Linacre road is so run down needs money spent

Are we going to have any free space left around south sefton or just crack on until we look like Birmingham, falling over one another??

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Former Site of St Wilfrids Catholic High School, Orrell Road
Litherland
Proposal: Full planning permission for the erection of 185 dwellings and
associated landscaping and infrastructure including a new highway
access junction from Hawthorne Road, 3 shared drive access points
from Orrell Road, public open space including an equipped children’s
play area and detention basin, and a dedicated electricity substation

Great news, this development alongside the 39 new homes off Field Lane (assuming the application is approved) will provide much needed housing in a highly sustainable area just a few minutes walk from shops, schools and the train station… it would be nice to see the 46 homes on Sandy Lane come forward too following the outline planning approval last year.

Will this be a ‘green’ project and child friendly? One equipped playground for this many houses may not be enough.
I absolutely agree with other commentators that it’s high time Sefton Council did something about the Linacre Road neighbourhood. It was once a thriving, bustling area where people took pride in where they lived but has been so neglected over the past 50 years it is now a rental ‘special licensing’ area. Shame on you Sefton Council.

Make sure the houses for sale are Freehold and NOT Leasehold

I just hope that this doesn’t get passed and then another submission goes in without the pitches. This happened on Church fields. We agreed a park in the middle and a later submission removed it.

Hope they help support other youth groups especially Sedton SeaCadets who have been supporting the young people of Sefton and the surrounding area since 1942,they are a registered charity and deserve to be helped

You know you’re in for a quality development when the developer commissions watercolour paintings rather than renders.

I prefer oil on canvas, but I suppose it is Bootle.

I find the planned sports pitches and the playgrounds a worry. We have them here in Buckshaw Village in Chorley. The trend these days is for such public ameneties to remain unadopted by councils, with insurance and maintenance costs paid for by residents. Everyone pays full council tax plus an uncapped, unregulated “private estate” maintenance fee. The ameneties are open to the general public but paid for by ‘cash cow’ residents, who also have to pay for an estate managing agent. Don’t let it happen where you live!
Check out The Homeowners Network (HorNet) or the National Leasehold Campaign (NLC).

Looks good, about time something was built on that land, but what about the land that Bootle High once stood on? Are there plans a foot for that too?

Should not be any traffic exiting into Hawthorne road , it is far to busy now

Hope they do t damage the surrounding homes like they did by me. Hopefully they build these ones properly too. Thrown up cardboard boxes with rubbish finish. Advice to buyers dont pay a penny until every snag is completed. I know people who’ve been on that estate for over 2 years still with snags and bad workmanship that bellway keep ignoring. Bad company to say the very least. They obviously give local authorities big back handers to keep getting the contracts.

This will cause even more congestion on the already unable to cope roads around the area and once the port of Liverpool start to increase the wagons on the same roads in the way they plan to people will be crying out for that new road across Rimrose valley, smart move Sefton council!!

Buliding on every bit of green space we have. We will be building on cemetery’s next.

Rimrose valley next. Dual carriageway and 2000 houses. No green space left.

Shame on you Sefton council – another money spinner – try creating natural open spaces for the people instead.

We got enough new houses around Litherland now we’ve got kids not going 2 skool cause they all getting closed an knocked down so the kids then turn 2 crime cause there’s nowt else 4 them 2 do !!!!

Who wamts to live by an electricity sub station !!!!!!

So there is going to be nothing for the environment they are taking rimrose Valley there will be no countryside left in Sefton God help us we will not able to breathe. They do not care about us

I’d like to know when Sefton are going to pay any attention to try to improve the Ford/Pendle area? It’s been ignored with £0 spent on it in the 15 years we’ve leaved near it. Good people live on the estates but it’s like Sefton MBC have written it off as just being a sink estate because some antisocial scum bags cause trouble.

To those saying more green space gone, id just like to point out this isnt greenbelt its a derelict building site, and if im right wasnt there a load of guns and drugs found on that land not that long ago ? This is a good thing imo but definitely agree they should rethink letting traffic out onto hawthorne road, it would be much more sensible to allow only access from orrell lane,