Four-year battle for 195 new homes near Woodplumpton looks set for conclusion

What is currently farmland could become 195 homes at Lower Bartle.

A long-running planning application for 195 homes at Lower Bartle have moved a step closer to approval.

The application by Hollins Homes has been rumbling on for four years and will go before Preston City Council’s planning committee on 9 January.

In a report by the council’s director of development and housing ahead of this week’s meeting, the plans have been given the thumbs up if certain concessions are met.

The report states: “Subject to a Section 106 Obligation being secured providing 30% affordable housing,
a financial contribution towards the East-West Link Road, transfer of the land to the south-east of the power lines (within the application site) to the council for £1 and the future management and maintenance of open space, planning permission be granted subject to conditions addressing those matters listed in paragraph 2.1.”

In the planning statement linked to the application, it says the 17.5 acre site falls within the NW Preston Masterplan and seeks to build on what is currently grass fields.

It adds: “The site frontage to Bartle Lane is between the Woodplumpton and District tennis and bowling club and the former Woodlands Farm, which is now a housing development site.”

The proposed development would have a mixture of two bedroom affordable homes, plus a mixture of larger private residences.

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