Rowland puts forward 174-home Chorley proposal
The housebuilder is eyeing 28-acres earmarked for redevelopment in the emerging Central Lancashire Local Plan.
Rowland Homes’ scheme would comprise 174 homes off Bagganley Lane, close to Junction 8 of the M61, and north-east of Chorley town centre.
The site forms the majority of an allocation in the draft Central Lancashire Local Plan for mixed use development comprising 6.5 acres of employment land and up to 200 homes, according to a planning statement prepared by Lichfields.
Rowland’s scheme proposes a mix of two-, three-, and four-bedroom properties, including 52 designated as affordable. Of these, 71% would be available for social rent.
The site would be accessed from Heapey Road and 408 parking spaces are proposed. 11 acres of the site would be designated as public open space, according to the plans.
MPSL is leading on design. To learn more, search for reference number 25/00907/FULMAJ on Chorley Council’s planning portal.
Weighing in favour of the application is Chorley’s current housing land supply position, which is 2.3 years against a statutory target of five, according to Lichfields.
More homes with zero social infrastructure such as GP’s, dentists or schools. Genius idea….
By Chris
Blackburn road can’t take anymore traffic. I oppose this application
By Joanne Bretherton
The road 100% cant handle the extra traffic
By Jack
Take away green spaces = taking away people’s mental wellbeing at a time when it’s such a hot topic Well done! 👏🏻
By Anonymous
In other countries, I believe developers must add gp surgeries and school proposals etc to their plan before plans are passeed
By Anonymous
There is going to be no green land left it’s crazyall this building what about the wildlife the councils just don’t care all to do with money no wonder climate change is happening
By Baldwin
People opposing applications is a classic, especially whilst probably sat in their own home… It developer’s job to build and councils job to manage the region. 52 affordable scheme houses giving people the opportunity to move from rented, freeing those for others.. Houses are needed, it boosts jobs, it can benefit local businesses and keeps UK construction busy. I’d look to you’re local (genius) councillor(s) and ask where the vast amount of money they’ll receive from levy’s and future council tax is being spent.
By P C McGarry
Appalling, to build on such a beautiful piece of land. Yet we are still building warehouse that aren’t occupied on industrial land that was originally earmarked for housing .
By Anonymous
Building on a heavily boggy flood area …well done and we dont need more houses
By Caroline thompson
‘Beautiful piece of land’… It’s a field.. A farmers field that most of Chorley won’t have known existed… @ Baldwin – less than 6% of the UK is built on and every one of the houses built will be as energy efficient as can be.. solar/heat pumps/150mm cavity and 400mm loft insulation.. is your house that green?
By W Carson
@ Caroline thompson … “we dont need more houses” Said she from her house…. What’s a dont by the way?
@ Anonymous 9.10am It is a field not a park and its last residents were probably cows… What about the wellbeing of people trying to have a place of their own, a young couple maybe wanting to start a family.. they obviously don’t count in your wellbeing world.. Grab your stress balls my friend as I see a wave of new planning heading for the south side of Chorley…
By P C McGarry
We have a housing crisis in this country, this development helps address the crisis. Get it built.
By Anonymous
Far too many houses are being built.
More wildlife disturbed!
By Anonymous
For gods sake! Lots of wild animals use that land. Many people walk their dogs down there or just enjoy a lovely walk up the Nab. Together with the horrendous carbunkle that sits at Botany Bay, how mush more of the countryside round here is going to be swallowed up. The traffic round here is horrendous without adding to it. Its gine beyond a joke now 🤬
By Trish Hamlett
The problem isn’t that there’s a lack of houses, it’s that houses aren’t affordable. There are hundreds of thousands of empty houses in this country. Building more houses that people can’t buy isn’t going to solve anything.
By Pegasus
The only people in favour of this are the people that won’t be affected by it .
By Anonymous
It’s a joke, turning the whole countryside into a concrete jungle
By Anonymous
I wish to object to the proposed development on land adjoining Bagganley Lane. I consider it to be totally inappropriate in what is clearly a rural location. The addition of more roads would further exacerbate the traffic congestion, which is already a problem in the area of the proposed development.
By Jane Evans
More unwanted and unneeded houses ruining all the green spaces around Chorley. What about all the wildlife?
By Dawn McHugh
I object as enough of our lovely country side is being taken away. The traffic volume would cause such upheaval. And yet another excuse for chorley council to get more council tax,
By Kathryn Heaton
This is obsurd! The area cannot cope with more traffic let alone the lack of social resources now!
By Anonymous
I’ve submitted my thoughts on this to the planning permission committee. Building homes in this area would set a dangerous precedent that we can decimate our green belts for housing. We have plenty of ‘brown spaces’ in and around Chorley that can be redeveloped into housing. Healey Nab is a beautiful natural area of Chorley, if we start to encroach on it and disrupt the ecosystem, then it gives the go ahead for other developers to eat into our green spaces. We have disused buildings, mills, factories, even an old adult college that’s closed down. Use those places. Not our already depleted natural areas.
By Hannah