National housebuilder Taylor Wimpey submits planning application to build 93 new Liverpool city region homes at a cost of £24.3m and also intends to build a further 97 houses on the same site. Tony McDonough reports
Taylor Wimpey is looking to build 190 new homes on a 20-acre site in Knowsley, part of a wider scheme that will eventually see 1,600 new homes.
On a site just north of the M62, Taylor Wimpey has submitted a full planning application for 93 three, four and five-bedroom houses at a cost of £24.3m. It has also submitted a further outline application for 97 homes on the same site.
This plot is part of the wider Halsnead Garden Village which is set to deliver around 1,600 new homes, 22.5 hectares of employment land, and green infrastructure, including a new country park.
According to the submitted plans Taylor Wimpey will leave around seven acres of the development, called Fox Wood Garden Village in Fox’s Bank Lane, undeveloped and retained as public open space.
However, the national housebuilder is proposing not to make any of the homes ‘affordable’ (no more than 80% of local market rate) as it claims this would impact the viability of the scheme.
Work on earlier phases of the scheme are already under way with Taylor Wimpey building 350 homes and Bloor Homes building 330. Your Housing Group has secured consent for 377 homes.
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This mixed use site, which will include 1m of industrial and logistics space, is located on the site of the former Cronton Colliery.
Coal mining began at the site in 1916 and, at its height, the colliery employed more than 900 people and annually produced more than 350,000 tonnes of coal. Eight men were killed in 1917 during an explosion at the seam. It closed in 1984.