Wain Homes launches next Wyre project
Plans for 102 affordable homes have been submitted by the firm for a site off Normoss Road, between Blackpool and Poulton-le-Fylde.
Wain Homes is working with regular partner Emery Planning on the project. The 16-acre site is also bound by Marina Avenue and Benedict Drive.
Although closer to Blackpool’s edges than Poulton’s, the site is within the Poulton boundary and will thus be considered by Wyre Council.
In its affordable housing statement, advisor Tetlow King said that along with examining the need for more affordable homes in Wyre, it is doing the same in Blackpool, given the proximity of the site to the two authorities’ shared administrative boundary – the councils have a common housing allocations policy, so applicants are eligible in the neighbouring borough.
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Under the proposals, 71 homes would be available through social rent, and 31 through shared ownership.
Wain Homes will be hoping for a more positive outcome here than in its previous Wyre bid, where plans for another Poulton project – 208 homes off Fouldrey Avenue – were refused in November on seven grounds.
Chief among these was that development should be directed to within existing settlement boundaries, and that the part of the scheme comprising three-storey apartment blocks was unsympathetic to the landscape.
The Normoss Road scheme’s papers can be viewed on Wyre’s planning portal with the reference 25/0990/LMAJ.
Another development that’s 90% road
By M. I. Grant
The roads and car parks are already congested , why do they keep building more and more houses , and nothing in the way of new schools , surgeries , local parks and green spaces . The town is being strangled to death by over development
By Anonymous
This obscene building houses as got to stop . For one the hospital cannot handle anymore . Schools are oversubscribed . Utilities are at there limits. So for once let see sanity from planning.
By Chris Boyd
Marina drive isn’t wide enough to allow minimum of 102 cars access onto the proposed site. Why can’t the access be onto Benedict drive? The residents of marina drive and kerslea Avenue will have their quiet streets turned into busy access roads. The original proposal was 9 houses with vehicle access off the main road – how on earth can this then change to over 100 houses. The vehicles will be queued up trying to get off the estate in the mornings. Also where will all th kids go to school ? Where will they go to the doctors and dentists. There is no infrastructure for all the extra people. Public services are bursting at the seams and are at crisis point. We need more facilities not more housing
By Cathy