Green light for 300 Poulton homes
Story Homes and Bellway’s joint venture will set about transforming 30 acres of farmland into a neighbourhood with 90 affordable residences, a nearly 10-acre wildlife habitat, and 7.3 acres of public open space.
Wyre Council voted to grant permission to the 300-home scheme off Blackpool Road in Poulton at its planning committee meeting earlier this month. The two housebuilders aim to start on site next summer.
As part of the planning agreement, the duo has committed to more than £1.5m in community investment – including funds for highway improvements, education, and health services.
Story is set to build 143 of the 300 homes, with Bellway tasked with the remaining 157. Story’s section of the development will include properties with between one and six bedrooms. The Bellway portion will boast one- to five-bedroom homes.
There will be 30% affordable housing provided on the site, reserved for those who have a local connection.
“As a business, we are committed to building high-specification homes in places where people want to live,” said Adam Galleymore, North West operations director for Story Homes.
“Following on from the success of our current Tithe Gardens development, we are thrilled to be able to bring more of our quality new homes to Poulton.”
David Williams, managing director at Bellway North West, added: “Building on the recent success of our developments in Great Eccleston, Lathom and Preston, we are pleased to receive planning approval to bring more high-quality homes to Lancashire and are looking forward to working closely with Story Homes to deliver this superb new residential development in Poulton.”
APD drew up the designs for the layout of the neighbourhood. Asteer led on planning.
The project team for the scheme also included: Curtins, LDE, Urban Green, SurveyEng, PDA Acoustics, ERAP Consultant Ecologists, and SureScreen Scientifics.
The application reference number is 24/00439/REMMAJ on Wyre Council’s planning portal.
Nauseating destruction of beautiful farming acreage. People can’t get a gp or dental appointment as it is !! And which already overly full schools they gonna cram their children into ?
By Colette Boylan
Is there any green space left on the Fylde Coast Now !!!!
By Anonymous
Fantastic, more copy and paste low density car dependent dreck for people on 95% LTV interest only mortgages. Boring boring boring.
By Skip Poole
Disgusting. I have lived here all my life. Poulton was a village , it’s becoming a huge town without the infrastructure to support it.
By Anonymous
Best thing for poulton is to get ride of the council that agree to this. Where do they live not poulton for sure.
By Anonymous
Time to leave the Fylde coast, there will be no green space left in a few years. Sick of spending my tax on a council hell bent on destroying the area.
By Anonymous
Tbf, Wyre turned this down due to the proximity of the level crossing, and it not being an allocated site. The P I overturned the decision, so on this occasion Wyre are not to blame.
By Horace_the_Elk
How the heck can Poulton cope with any more traffic due to new housing developments? 1.5m for community investments? Love to come back in 5 years to audit where all this money ended up. Just think if this farmland was made in a public nature reserve and parkland for locals. Instead it’s housing developers carving out every bit of land for profit Poulton is unrecognisable from just a few years ago.
By Anonymous
People get weirdly passionate and angry about flat boring empty agricultural fields. It’s bizarre, especially when everything east of the River Wyre is basically undeveloped countryside.
By Sten
Where is the plans and infra structure for schools, GPs and Dentists ? Poulton will be grid locked with traffic, does Wyre apply commonsense to decisions….!
By MF
How can the Council call Poulton a “Quaint Market Town”. When they have approved planning for 300 homes…a small village in itself!! How on earth will the roads cope with all the extra traffic? Never mind the local infrastructure???
By Anonymous
Well the new bypass will soon be gridlocked and a new one needed .
By Concerned
It’s an absolute disgrace what they are doing to Poulton. I’ve lived here all my life and it used to be a lovely place to live.
Soon there will be no wildlife left as all their habitats are nearly gone.
You can’t move in your car as it is for the amount of traffic coming through Poulton and there has never been any extra roads put in to compensate for all these extra houses that have on average 2 cars per home.
Poulton has been ruined over the last few years with all this housing and is only going to get worse.
Enough is enough. 😡
By Anonymous
“I remember when it was all fields around here.”
The NIMBYs are out in force today.
If we dont build houses then the prices will continue to increase until nobody can afford them. Where are our children meant to live? Do you want your kids, aged 40, still living in the box room?
Stop being so selfish!
By Anonymous
Any schools or Drs surgeries being built ? To support the extra families it will bring to the area
By Anonymous
As the story states, as part of their planning agreement with Wyre Council the housebuilders are contributing £1.5m in community investment, with some of those funds going towards highway improvements, education, and health services.
By Julia Hatmaker
This is great but what about the traffic on Blackpool Road and Particularly around the level crossing. We need a new way to cross the railway line, but won’t happen as there is no profit in that!!
By Anonymous
The drains cannot cope with wastage flooding
Traffic build up the roads need attention we could mention lots more but you are not listening
By Sad nurse