PLANNING | Chorley set to approve 382 homes, Botany Bay helipad
Redrow Homes is eyeing up land in Whittle-le-Woods and Eccleston to build 250 homes and 65 homes, respectively, while Miller Homes wants to provide 67 homes in Coppull.
Meanwhile, the Victorian Canal Mill at Botany Bay could be transformed to provide a car park, featuring a multi-use space and a helipad under FI Real Estate Management’s proposals.
Chorley Council is recommended to approve each item at its planning committee meeting on Tuesday.
Botany Bay
Application number: 22/01080/FULMAJ
FI Real Estate Management wants to build a podium at its Canal Mill headquarters to provide an extra 85,800 sq ft of space across four floors to accommodate parking and leisure activities.
Architect DMWR designed the scheme, which would provide FIREM’s employees with 163 car parking spaces, along with nine motorcycle and 25 cycle bays.
Proposals also include the creation of a helipad and hangar for the company helicopter.
On the same level as the hangar, approval would see an 11,200 sq ft multi-use space introduced to be used by FIREM’s employees for exercise classes, team bonding sessions, and sports.
Plan Red is the scheme’s planning consultant. Also on the project team is transport consultant Curtins and environmental consultant Tyler Grange.
Updated plans suggest alternative pedestrian access. Credit: via planning documents
Land south east of Town Lane
Application number: 22/01142/OUTMAJ
Redrow Homes has submitted an outline application for the construction of up to 250 houses on the 33-acre fields off Town Lane in Whittle-le-Woods.
Architect Cass Associates designed the scheme, which would feature 38 two-, 124 three-, and 88 four-bedroom properties.
Of the 250 houses, 75 would be affordable.
Residents would have access to a total of 675 car parking spaces.
Redrow has resubmitted its application following the council’s refusal of the original plans in 2020 due to road safety concerns. Updated plans propose alternative access routes for pedestrians and cyclists.
The project team includes transport consultant SCP, landscape architect Urban Green, and noise consultant Hepworth Acoustics.
Redrow was granted outline permission for the scheme last February. Credit: via planning documents
Land east of Tincklers Lane
Application number: 22/00748/REMMAJ
Redrow also has its sights on Eccleston with plans to build 65 homes with access off Doctors Lane.
Designed by Cass Associates, approval would see the housebuilder deliver eight one-bedroom apartments, as well as 10 two-, eight three-, 33 four-, and six five-bedroom houses.
Of the 65 homes, 23 would be affordable.
Redrow was granted outline permission to deliver up to 80 homes on the site last February.
Since their approval, plans have been altered to provide bigger gardens and garages, as well as changing the orientation and spread of the houses.
Trevor Bridge Associates is the landscape architect for the scheme.
There would be 20 affordable homes. Credit: via planning documents
Land west of Belvedere
Application number: 21/01076/FULMAJ
Miller Homes wants to deliver 67 homes on the seven-acre agricultural plot off Darlington Street in Coppull following the demolition of the existing St John’s Vicarage on-site.
Designed by architect Gallagher Technical & Design, the scheme would feature eight one-bedroom apartments, as well as six two-, 32 three-, and 21 four-bedroom houses.
Of the 67 homes, 20 would be affordable.
A total of 134 car parking spaces would be provided for residents.
WSP is the planning consultant for the scheme.
Also on the project team is landscape architect TPM Landscape and transport consultant Eddisons.
Just build where they want, destroy the countryside
By Anonymous
Town Lane is a country lane and totally unsuitable for more traffic with a narrow stretch along a line of parked cars in Whittle village.
Planning was refused on road safety grounds and the new proposal should also be refused.
By Richard
The Whittle le Woods development looks like it can only be accessed by leaving the A6 down one of 2 very narrow roads into Waterhouse green or down Dolphin Brow from Chorley Old Road which is over parked and has a 90° bend at the top. Coming from the other direction down Town Lane there’s a very narrow canal bridge which can only be used in one direction at a time. These roads are already restricted to HGVs. There are also plans to build further up off Chorley Old Road which is already overparked and can only be driven down by constantly giving way. These plans need to be rejected on access and safety grounds.
By Brian
These plans are a disgusting invasion of the countryside and are adding to the already rapidly dying environment. The builders and investors have no regard for the future, for our children and their future. The evidence is thete that climate change is happening and there isn’t much time left to turn the situation round but these people are greedy, live for the moment chancers. If more homes are needed start in town centres and brown field sites evrn if they have to forfeit some of their profits for the greater good. These plans need to be seriously opposed.
By Anonymous
Do NIMBYs just search the internet for articles on developments they don’t like so they can comment? Is that how we end up with such ridiculous comments on these pages?
By Anonymous
Most people are NIMBYs, if we allowed the public to vote on development nothing would ever get built
By DH
Try getting 134 cars down Darlington street for access to proposed site in Coppull alternatively past the school on Park Road, not to mention tradespeople vans, lorries and trucks.
By Anonymous
@‘DH’
That’s why we have trade-offs in life. A balance between countryside protection and housing people in comfort so they can flourish. A nuanced discussion. One’s untrammelled liberty hampers other’s liberty.
Enhancing green belt with biodiverse woodlands and orchards close to people, along with pedestrian-oriented urbanism and suburbanism would be a route I’d go for.
By SW
Just thoughtful about some of the ‘why are we building on countryside’ arguments should take a look of the green belt in the NorthWest, which a) takes huge swathes of countryside/land out of development b) naturally forces development into sites like these. If we had a more pragmatic view of land use we’d find a better and more climate friendly set of trade offs.
By Rich X
How is Whittle le Woods going to cope with all this additional housing , when there is no road infrastructure in place.
There in insufficient green space, schools, and health resources. The A6 will become a car park. The person who made the comment about NIMBY’s doesn’t have a clue what they are talking about. Another ill informed keyboard warrior.
By Tony
More cars having to go down Preston Rd , to the m61. Busy enough at the moment with Buckshaw village nearby.
By JC
Town lane is a country lane which cannot take another 600 cars. Pedestrian and cyclist routes on the estates will not take away all the extra traffic on Town Lane which is narrow with bends and a canal bridge suitable for one large vehicle. Planning was refused on road safety and nothing has changed. Let’s hope sense prevails.
By Liz
No to homes in whittle le woods. It will ruin the whole village by losing the countryside we live in the roads here are already congested the amount of traffic already makes it dangerous for children and old people crossing the road in what is supposed to be a 20mph limit zone. If these houses are built on the proposed site the roads will become very dangerous so unless new roads are built entirely altering the whole village as we know it it can not work. Find a better and less disruptive site for your new homes please.
By Fred wilson
Who wants to go to Botany Bay by helicopter??!!
By Nick
“Who wants to go to Botany Bay by helicopter??!!” I was there some years ago when someone, presumably the owner, turned up in a helicopter.
By Hector
Before building any new houses in Chorley build schools, colleages, hospitals…
By Meghna Fletcher