Wain Homes submits brace of housing plans
The developer wants to build more than 250 homes across schemes in St Helens and Preston.
In St Helens, Wain Homes has submitted proposals for 99 homes on land west of Mill Lane in Newton-le-Willows.
The development would be built on a 12-acre chunk of a wider 31-acre site that Wain Homes holds an option over.
In total, the developer could deliver up to 300 homes as part of a masterplan it has drawn up for the area.
Part of the Mill Lane application site is allocated for development under St Helens local plan, while the other half is safeguarded.
As a result, the houses planned are to be constructed on the land designated for development.
In Preston, Wain Homes has lodged a hybrid application seeking full consent for 47 homes and outline permission for a further 104.
The scheme would be constructed on a 23.4-acre site off Garstang Road, five miles north of the city centre.
The application follows Wain Homes’ successful appeal against Preston City Council’s decision to refuse an outline application for 155 homes on the same site last year.
Emery Planning is advising Wain Homes on both projects.
The planning reference number for the Preston project is 06/2022/0644.
The planning reference number for the St Helens project is P/2022/0575/FUL.
As the 5 Year Housing Supply was supposedly met in early 2021 how can permission be granted for a further 151 homes on the Cardwell Farm site. It would appear that Wain Homes can appeal and another slice of open countryside is swallowed up with houses.
By Anonymous
The 5 Year Housing Supply is a minimum housing target, not a ceiling. Having a 5 Year Housing Supply is not sufficient grounds on its own to justify refusal of sustainable development.
Not an opinion – just a fact.
By Anonymous
At the risk of saying this in multiple threads – meeting the governments housing targets is not the same as housing abundance, that’s about stopping affordability from deteriorating further, but materially improving it.
By Rich X