Wain Homes plots 455 Preston houses
The city council is expected to grant the housebuilder full planning permission to build 26 homes off Bartle Lane next Thursday, as well as outline permission for a further 429 properties on the same site.
Architect DGL Associates designed the project to be delivered on the 47-acre site, which is split into two parcels.
Wain Homes is seeking full planning permission to deliver 26 homes on the smaller four-acre parcel, featuring three two-, 14 three-, and nine four-bedroom houses.
Outline permission is being sought for a further 429 houses to be built on the larger 43-acre parcel.
Planning officers have recommended that the city council approves the project subject to a Section 106 agreement providing on-site affordable housing and the transfer of land at Metropolitan Park to Preston City Council.
A total of 83 homes would be affordable. The larger parcel of land would provide 69 affordable houses and the smaller parcel would provide 14.
Maybern is the planning consultant for the scheme.
Also on the project team is landscape consultant Annabelle Langhorn, transport consultant Tetra Tech, and ecology consultant Rachel Hacking Ecology.
Original proposals, submitted last year, sought full planning permission for 42 homes and outline permission for up to 480 homes. Plans have since been revised to reduce the scheme’s impact on the adjacent Linear Park.
The whole project marks the third phase of Wain Homes’ wider masterplan for the area, ‘The Paddocks’.
The housebuilder already has outline planning permission for up to 580 homes in the area.
To find out more about the plans up for approval, search for application number 06/2021/1414 on Preston City Council’s planning portal.
Also up for approval at the city council’s planning committee next week is an application for 90 apartments to be delivered at the former site of the Sumners Public House off Watling Street Road.
