Riverside secures approval for 130 affordable homes
Sefton Council has granted planning permission to The Meadows project, which includes a two-storey autism respite facility that provides parents with a place for their child to temporarily stay while they recharge their batteries.
Paddock Johnson designed The Meadows for social housing provider Riverside Group.
The scheme sits on more than five acres between Sandbrook Road and Orchard Lane in Ainsdale.
Under the approved plans, there will be two bungalows, six maisonette flats and 32 houses constructed. There will also be a 90-apartment, three-storey extra care facility and the aforementioned autism respite facility.
Of the project’s 130 homes, 110 will have affordable rent tenures. The remaining 20 houses, which have between two- and three-bedrooms, will be designated for affordable ownership.
The plans also include 137 car parking spaces.
Access to the bungalows, maisonette flats and houses will be from Sandbrook Road. These homes will sit on the western part of the project site. These homes will have a mini road network connecting them, which will also lead to the extra care and autism respite facilities.
The extra care building will hold more than 9,500 sq ft of public and private space including a bistro and a hairdresser for residents.
The official sign-off for the project from Sefton Council was on 9 September.
Tree Solutions is the arboricultural consultant for the project. MCoopers is the drainage consultant. Eddisons is the transport consultant. Rachel Hacking Ecology is the ecology consultant.
If you would like to learn more about The Meadows, the application’s reference number is DC/2020/02187 on the Sefton Council planning portal.
Elsewhere in the North West, Riverside is progressing its £19m senior living project in Rochdale – aiming to open the 98-home Keswick Gardens development in the summer of 2023.
