Persimmon lines up 1,000-home East Lancaster proposal
Contracts have been exchanged with Lansil Sports & Social Club, securing the last piece of land required to advance the project towards a planning application this year.
The site is allocated for housing in the Lancaster District Local Plan, in which it is billed as the East Lancaster Strategic Site.
Persimmon’s Lancashire division said it will now look to progress a hybrid application which will be submitted to Lancaster City Council.
Within these plans the York-headquartered housebuilder will safeguard land for a primary school and a country park, with over 50% of the development area designated as green space.
Additionally, the proposed development would include a new golf course and clubhouse, a bowling green and five-a-side football pitch.
At its online information page, Persimmon said that the first application would likely include detailed plans for 300 homes and the rejigged sports facilities, with outline consent sought for the remainder.
Half the site will be green. Credit: Persimmon
The initial consultation, Persimmon said, had led it to include more one- and two-bed housing for first-time buyers and downsizers, along with more bungalows.
In a statement marking the deal, the trustees of the Lansil Sports & Social Club, said: “We are pleased to have exchanged contracts with Persimmon Homes after a period of detailed negotiation.
“The proposed new facilities will provide a much-improved golf course, clubhouse, bowling green and all weather pitch, set amongst a significant new residential development.
“It will be a major new chapter in the life of this club. We look forward to Persimmon Homes positively progressing the planning application and making a construction start.”
Andrew Laing, land director at Persimmon Homes Lancashire, said: “As a Lancaster based business, we are excited at the prospect of bringing significant new investment in to the city and creating a vibrant community for people to enjoy.
“The development will provide a wide-range of much-needed, energy-efficient new homes and we look forward to working closely with the council and other key stakeholders to progress the application.”
Absolutely atrocious land usage. Proposing bungalows in 2026 is absolutely criminal, can we please just have proper apartments with ground floor shops and services, then we could keep 90% of our green space, not 50%!
By M. I. Grant
So glad that we’ll be getting addition hospital, GP and dentist space. Oh wait…
By Dave
Absolutely wonderful land usage. Proposing bungalows with an aging population and rising energy costs is absolutely perfect, can we please stop making prison like apartments with vacant shops, then we could use our green spaces more effectively?!
By Anonymous
This is the most disgusting land use arrangement I have seen. I expected better than this low density, car dependent, sprawling mess of a proposal. Let’s have a higher density mixed use center with apartments and business units and then gentle density surrounding it, to make good public transport actually viable. We could then safeguard 75% of the land to be green space with the potential to build some more if needed to protect other areas in future. This way we could massively reduce the impact on traffic, the landscape whilst providing existing residents with better public transport, it’s how the University does it, it works really well there. BUT NO!
By Anonymous
@March 09, 2026 at 11:52 pm
By Anonymous
It’s Persimmon. Enough sai.
By Rye
Re. M. I. Grant’s comments. New housing should meet all housing needs, and that includes the needs of older people who may wish to live in a bungalow with a garden. If we don’t satisfy that need, they’ll continue to live in their existing family homes, and thus obstruct the market. Also public “green space” is only green if it comes with a reliable maintenance contract. In the absence of that, it’s known as wasteland, or sometimes even a rubbish dump.
By Anonymous
“….the York-headquartered housebuilder…“
“As a Lancaster based business….”
Make your minds up, Persimmon.
As for building bungalows, if they get retired couples out of their family-sized houses then all well and good. Bungalows tend to sell fairly quickly which suggests demand is there.
By BLS Bob
Can we not get stone buildings rather than cheap looking prefabs?
By Anonymous
BLS Bob
“Andrew Laing, land director at Persimmon Homes Lancashire, said: “As a Lancaster based business”
So yeah headquarters in York, but the Lancaster based office is indeed Lancaster based…
By Anonymous