Knowsley approves Prescot Gas Works resi
Outline planning permission has been granted for Poven Developments’ 40-home scheme on the nearly four-acre brownfield site.
Knowsley Council approved the application during its planning committee meeting on Thursday, subject to a Section 106 agreement and a lack of objections from Natural England.
Because of the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Poven Development’s project was the only application voted on during the 8 September meeting. The rest of the applications, including Alderley Group’s proposal for 40 apartments for those over 55 years of age in Huyton, were deferred.
Poven Development’s project would retain the gas distribution centre in the middle of the Prescot plot. This centre would remain operational, with the homes being built on either side of it. A landscaped bund would separate the gas centre from the project’s residential elements.
Under the proposals submitted by Smith + Love Planning Consultants, there would be eight two-storey houses and six bungalows built east of the gas centre. Access to these homes would be from Ward Street.
West of the gas centre would sit 26 apartments stretched across two blocks of varying height. One block would have three storeys, the other would have two. Access to the apartments would be from Moss Street.
Due to the brownfield nature of the site, the developer argued that it could not provide affordable housing in the project because of viability concerns.
Car parking would also be included in the scheme, as well as public realm and required infrastructure. Details for these elements will be revealed in a subsequent reserved matters application.
Snow Architects designed the scheme, with Milieu Landscape Design as landscape architect.
Sutcliffe is the structural engineer. Eddisons is the traffic and highways consultant. Hepworth Acoustics is the noise consultant and Arbor Consultancy is the arboricultural expert. Grasscroft Developments Solutions is advising on Section 106 matters.
Want to learn more about the project? The application’s reference number with Knowsley Council is 20/00746/OUT.
This does not feel an appropriate development for this site, neither does access via Moss Street.
“Due to the brownfield nature of the site, the developer argued that it could not provide affordable housing in the project because of viability concerns” is just a cop out.
By Prescotian
A good chance here for some inspiring design, now that the Shakespeare Theatre is up and running, we can only hope.
By Anonymous
no more building in prescot over crowding and the roads are getting worse
By dez