Redrow wins approval for Halton homes
The housebuilder is expecting to start on site next year creating two housing estates in Widnes: 428 homes off Derby Road and a further 51 properties off South Lane.
Redrow Homes submitted two separate planning applications for the sites, which have received approval from Halton Council.
Permission comes despite the schemes having drawn a total of 154 objections, with concerns raised about their impact on roads, schools, and GPs.
James Newton, managing director of Redrow, said: “These two sites represent a milestone for the Halton area as they’re the first housing developments to be brought to this stage under Halton’s new Delivery and Allocations Local Plan, which was approved in 2022.
“In total, we’ll be delivering 479 high quality homes across the two parcels of land.
“This will make a significant contribution towards meeting the area’s housing needs, including providing 96 affordable properties.”
Stantec is the planning consultant for the projects. I-Transport is the transport consultant.
Also on the project team is landscape architect PGLA and noise consultant E3p.
Derby Road
A total of 428 houses will be provided on the 50-acre site off Derby Road, including 86 affordable.
The properties will feature a mix of 24 one-, 48 two-, 85 three-, 224 four-, and 47 five-bedroom homes.
Residents will have access to 882 car parking spaces.
Linked to the planning consent for this site, Redrow will also be contributing £68,200 towards biodiversity enhancements with areas of green space interspersed.
To find out more about the plans, search for application number 22/00178/FUL on Halton Council’s planning portal.
South Lane
The adjacent five-acre site will provide 51 homes, including 10 affordable.
Properties will feature two one-, eight two-, two three-, 32 four-, and seven five-bedroom homes.
A total of 104 car parking spaces will be available for residents.
More about the plans can be found by searching for application number 22/00179/FUL.
Redrow is active throughout the North West, currently on-site at 10 locations across Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and Flintshire. This includes its Daresbury Garden Village masterplan, which will see 1,100 homes built.
More poorly designed dwellings with zero locality references. When will this stop and can we have volume house builders employing proper architects to design our new build housing stock.
By Anonymous
Boring, car centric neighbourhoods. Make these illegal
By Anonymous
Halton councillor’s don’t give a damn about the impact of these new estates.
All they see is hundreds of council tax payments of 2.5k plus a year coming in.
By Anonymous
I live in the area , can’t get doctors appointments, lack of NHS dentists and schools over subscribed. Also roads are busy without more access.
By Anonymous
how much are the affordable houses, your never told that. as Widnes has the lowest hourly paid jobs in the uk with a high level of benefit claimants, which rules out mortgages. we need houses now built like Sweden and Norway , more eco friendly, warmer better on the eye with less waste of natural resources and carbon foot print is a considerable amount less.
By zuess
More car-dependent soulless suburban sprawl… when will it end?
By Anonymous