Preston greenlights 545 homes

There was unanimous approval for 90 apartments to be delivered on the site of the former Sumners pub, while a further 455 houses to be built off Bartle Lane were given the go-ahead at the city council’s planning committee last week.

The Sumners

Application number: 06/2022/0715

PWA Planning has secured outline planning permission to deliver a total of 90 apartments on the former site of The Sumners pub off Watling Street Road.

The homes will be set across two blocks. The smaller block will be four storeys high and provide 34 flats, while the largest block will reach five storeys at its tallest point and house the other 54 apartments.

Emc Architects designed the scheme, which will feature 46 one- and 44 two-bedroom homes.

Residents will be provided with 92 car parking spaces, including six disabled and four electric vehicle spaces. There will also be seven areas for cycle parking.

The site is currently vacant following the demolition of the former pub there in 2018.

Tel is the scheme’s landscape architect. Cora is the transport consultant.

Land South of Bartle Lane

Application number: 06/2021/1414

The project is phase three of Wain Homes’s masterplan for the area. Credit: via planning documents

Wain Homes has been granted full planning permission to build 26 homes off Bartle Lane, as well as outline permission for a further 429 properties on the same site.

Architect DGL Associates designed the project to be delivered on the 47-acre site, which is split into two parcels.

Full planning permission has been granted for 26 homes to be built on the smaller four-acre parcel, featuring three two-, 14 three-, and nine four-bedroom houses.

The remaining 429 houses have received outline permission and will be built on the larger 43-acre parcel.

Of the 445 total homes, 83 homes will be affordable. The larger parcel of land will provide 69 affordable houses and the smaller parcel will provide 14.

Maybern is the planning consultant for the scheme.

Also on the project team are landscape consultant Annabelle Langhorn, transport consultant Tetra Tech, and ecology consultant Rachel Hacking Ecology.

Original proposals, submitted last year, sought full planning permission for 42 homes and outline permission for up to 480 homes. Plans have since been revised to reduce the scheme’s impact on the adjacent Linear Park.

The whole project marks the third phase of Wain Homes’ wider masterplan for the area, ‘The Paddocks’.

The housebuilder has outline planning permission for a further 580 homes in the area.