PRP has designed the Sandymoor scheme. Credit: via Lane End Group

Partners look to refresh Runcorn district centre

Five retail units and 49 senior living homes are the main elements of amended plans for local facilities in Sandymoor.

A Co-op store that anchors the scheme has already been completed at the site, while the nursery included in the initial 2019 application is also unaffected.

The development vehicle is Sandymoor Development Company, a joint venture between Lane End and Williams Tarr.

The JV is seeking to update its earlier consent, having added a single apartment to the scheme, along with a cycle-parking block and a substation. In addition, it is seeking hot food takeaway consent for two of the retail units. A vet will occupy a further unit.

Livv Housing Group is lined up as the operator for the residential project, which will comprise five bungalows, 20 one-bedroom flats and 24 two-bedroom flats.

PRP is the scheme architect and Urban Green the landscape architect.

As set out in the planning officer’s report, the site is allocated in Halton’s local plan as a retail and town centre site. Sandymoor is a key development area for Halton, with a school planned on a nearby site. Of Sandymoor’s 363 acres, 114 have been developed.

The site will be accessed from Pitts Heath Lane, which lies to its west. To the north is Sandymoor Wood and to the east a Morris Homes development called The Meadows. The unadopted Otterburn Road lies to the south, with a village green open space opposite the application site. The project is being built around the existing community hall.

Halton Council’s development management committee meets on Monday 8 August to discuss the application, along with Redrow’s latest proposal in Daresbury, where it wants to build a further 151 homes. Approval is recommended for both schemes.

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