Story Homes scopes Camelot site for 350 homes
The site of the former medieval-inspired theme park in Lancashire could become a 350-home development if the local council decides to change its tune on the attraction’s redevelopment after previous rejections.
Asteer Planning is assisting Story Homes with its application for the residential project on the Camelot site, which can be seen to the west from the M6.
The 74-acre plot off Park Hall Road is located to the southwest of Chorley town centre and hosted the theme park up to its closure in 2012.
Leftover structures were demolished in 2020 after the site’s unique ruins began to attract curious urban explorers.
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Story Homes has jousted with Chorley Council for permission to develop the site since 2014 when the housebuilder applied for 420 homes.
The local authority rejected the developer’s plans then, and in 2017, a 195-home plan was subsequently put forward.
This refreshed application was also rejected by Chorley’s councillors, who decided then that “the benefits associated with the proposed development would not outweigh the harm to Green Belt”.
To view the screening report for the latest application, use the reference number 25/00348/SCE on Chorley Council’s planning portal.
Seems an obvious “grey belt” site to me.
By J
I hope the Council will provide suitable accommodation and support for all the zombies that will displaced as a result of this development
By A zombie is for life not just for Halloween
They bought the theme park to shut it down and put houses on it, but the Council has frustrated them for more than a decade (ironically the former park hotel is doing quite well post closure as a luxury spa).
On the one side it is an ideal place for a new town with its own motorway junction and the council calling it Green Belt is being unreasonable, on the other screw Story Homes for shutting down our local theme park!
By Watcherzero
*Through an easy modification to Charnock Richards services slip roads
By Watcherzero
As the population in England explodes we need more houses.
Some body, government legislators for starters, stop these folk fooling about blocking housebuilding with silly Green Belt arguments.
By James Yates
I live in Eccleston, on Langton Close, and Syd Brook flows at the back of my house.
What effect will the de- culverting of Syd Brook have on the seasons flow of water running at the back of my house. Have Eccleston Parish Council been involved forward planning consultations. Have the Environmental and river Authorities had any input to the planning process at this stage.
By Peter Davies