Preston to consider 95 homes on former poultry farm
Plans indicate the residential development would be built on an 11-acre plot accessed from Goosnargh Lane.
Proposals for 62 market-rate and 33 blind tenure affordable properties have been submitted to Preston City Council, totalling 95 homes.
The homes would be a mixture of detached, semi-detached, and terraced properties.
A green infrastructure network with pedestrian-priority connections is also part of the plan, with woodland surrounding the scheme.
Planning consultant Emery Planning submitted the outline application on behalf of the landowners Gillian Wells, Thomas Swarbrick, and Lynn Johnson.
The application site was previously part of the Johnson & Swarbrick poultry production business, of which the main farm buildings have now been demolished.
Local amenities such as a church, primary school, community centre, and play area can be accessed in the village of Goosnargh. Preston City Centre is 7km to the south west of the site.
The project team includes Project Ecology, Treestyle, Townsend Water Engineering, iRIS Sustainable Planning, ReLandscape, Martin Environmental Services, and DGL Associates.
To view the application, use the reference number 06/2025/0182 on Preston City Council’s planning portal.
Eggcellent news.. 33 affordable properties is no poultry sum… granted there’ll be a few ruffled feathers locally but for the youngsters in the area it’s cracking news. Take abreast the high house cost, without these they won’t have a leg to stand on. Hopefully there’s no fowl tricks in the wings and they manage to pullet through planning.
By C Saunders
Having today driven through Goosnargh Village the amount of traffic was unbelievable. How much worse will it get if this plan goes ahead? Why are villages being destroyed,?
By Anonymous
The trouble is that;
1.’Affordable’ is often not as affordable as you might expect.
2. After planning consent is granted (with the condition that the ‘affordable’ housing is built) , developers often have a habit of asking for that condition to be relaxed/removed, or request permission to build the affordable houses to a lower specification than the normally required minimum standard by claiming that it makes the development uneconomical.
By Harry Speak