A DEVELOPMENT of l40 new homes is to be carried out on a 14-acre site off Liverpool Road, Great Sankey, Warrington.
The properties will range from three bedroom semi-detached to three, four and five bedroomed detached houses – and the development is to be called Primrose Meadow, inspired by Warrington Wolves.
It will be carried out by Bellway Homes, who last built homes in the Warrington are at Stockton Heath, two years ago.
Sales director Jenny Bell sa8d “We are thrilled to be back inWarrington, helping to meet the increased demand for new homes in the town.
“The plans for Primrose Meadow are stunning with an excellent selection of house styles, and we are confident that the development will prove popular with families, down-sizers and first time buyers looking for a high quality, low maintenance home in a great location.”
The developer will make several significant financial contributions that will be of direct benefit to the local community.
A transport contribution of £157,696 will be made, as well as £28,371 towards the Primary Care Trust and a further £25,589 towards public open space and an equipped play area.
A Mersey Forest contribution of £40,000 has been agreed and almost £2 million will be provided for affordable housing.
Work on site is expected to start within the next few months.
140 new homes to be built at Great Sankey
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Where will the £2 million worth of affordable housing be built? Within or outwith the borough?
Good question POSITRON.
The “three bedroom semi-detached to three, four and five bedroomed detached houses” might be popular to families -who are well off enough to buy them. However, these houses will most probably be out of the reach of typical first-time buyers and down-sizers are hardly going to be looking for four and five bedrooms!
What nonsense from the sales director!
The use of the word ‘helping’ in her sales spiel is utterly ridiculous, it’s blatantly obvious the only ones the developers are ‘helping’ are themselves.
What exactly is “a transport contribution of only £157,696″ expected to buy?
The contribution of £28,371 towards the Primary Care Trust – which will work out at less than £50 per new resident is an insult.
And the ” £25,589 towards public open space and an equipped play area” is more a selling point for the developers than a benefit for the local community. Does a development of 140 houses really need its own park? WBC will be supplying the main part of the funding and will be left to pay the ongoing maintenance, which will mean no money to supply a park in areas where there are thousands of residents who really do need one. This type of contribution might have been better being paid towards the upkeep of nearby Sankey Valley Park.
It’s not clear whether the affordable housing contribution is for houses built on site – possibly the ‘starter homes’? Whatever, nothing in this development plan is addressing the real housing need in Warrington which is for social rented homes.
Agree with all your comments SHA, particularly your last sentence. Yet another example of the doublethink (holding two contradictory views simultaneously and believing both have equal merit) on the “importance” of affordable housing. It’s bad enough but only to be expected that this bit of estate agenteze comes from the developer, but WBC must come in for equal criticism. Firstly because their planning consent here is based upon that sort of verbal flannel and secondly because they don’t press for a greater percentage per development of affordable housing on the other schemes they approve across the borough. Until they do the obvious mismatch of higher priced housing against affordable housing will continue to occur.
How much for a three bedroom house and how many social housing and private