Second chunk of 3,000-home St Helens garden village emerges
Taylor Wimpey is seeking consent to build 220 homes on a 20-acre parcel within the 316-acre Bold Forest Garden Village allocation.
The housebuilder has submitted outline plans for the project located on an agricultural field north of Gorsey Lane and south of St Helens town centre.
Homes ranging from one to five bedrooms are planned, with 30% of the units earmarked as affordable.
The site falls within the wider garden village, understood to be largest single housing allocation in Liverpool City Region.
Avison Young, SLR Consulting, and Social – in collaboration with St Helens Council – consulted on plans for the 3,000-home garden village last year.
Last September, Wain Estates lodged plans for the first scheme within the garden village boundary – 220 homes on the site immediately east of Taylor Wimpey’s.
Lichfields and Pegasus are advising Taylor Wimpey on the plans. To learn more, search for reference number P/2025/0674/OUP on St Helens Council’s planning portal.
May as well start building em now, since when has StHelens council put the constituents first? Schools hospitals, infrastructure. At the risk of repeating myself, they simply don’t want to improve or even maintain your standards of living. We should all lower our council tax band immediately!!
By StSimon
Why are you letting them build on agricultural land what we should be growing vegetables on Is it because you want us to Buy all our vegetables from Abroad wait for your reply
By Stanley Scholes
That’s great news, should add to the doctors waiting lists, zero dentist availability,overcrowded schools,zero industry opportunities, potholes and of course put more council tax into the hands of the people that destroyed the town centre…weĺ done.
By Keytone
Absoulutely not , the traffic is already bad on gorsey lane , I live on Crawford close , I cant count the times that drivers are still doing 40mh plus past Crawford street when I am turning to go to Clockface road , the amount of more traffic will seriously impact the residents already living there . Its an accident waiting to happen . If you want to build houses do so but not with access on Crawford street and seriously consider dropping the speed limit on gorsey lane , which has been a problem for a long time . Perhaps its about time the police did a speed test just to show that drivers are still breaking the law by speeding . Concerned resident .
By Anonymous
They haven’t started building on gartons lane NR the dream yet even though it was approved 3 years ago is a shame we are losing all our greenbelt. The town is already gridlocked there won’t be any clean air . The roads can’t cope no extra school places no doctors or dentists as they are already full and we can’t afford the houses to buy. The council don’t listen to the residents and never will.
By Anonymous
More farmland desecrated
By Ben
Maybe they could build a hospital while they are at it. Don’t say we already have one because st helens has no a and e and shuts at 7 oclock .
By Anonymous
Great news. Right by the railway line between Liverpool and Manchester, so should be fewer cars, and more customers for the dying town centre. Get ’em build yesterday!
By Asprin Going