Dan Whelan
Developer Lane End Group has been given the go-ahead to build 116 homes at the former Horwich Loco Works in Bolton, part of Bluemantle Group’s £262m redevelopment of the site.
Councillors voted unanimously in favour of the project, which features a mix of 78 one- and two-bedroom apartments, and 38 two-, three-, and four-bedroom family houses.
The homes are to be managed by two social housing providers, Bolton at Home and Irwell Valley Homes, and are scheduled to complete by February 2024.
Rivington Chase is a regeneration scheme on the site of the former locomotive works in Horwich, an industrial complex that first opened in 1886 and once housed the erecting shop of the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
PLANS have been lodged to build 63 new homes – comprising 38 apartments and 25 houses – on the former Royal British Legion site in Ellesmere Port. Developers Lane End Group are behind the proposal for the vacant land off Stanney Lane which also once included a garage forecourt. Both buildings, which closed down several years ago, have long since been demolished and the brownfield site is currently fenced off. Back in July 2018, the Royal British Legion unveiled plans to redevelop the land by building a 72-bed care home for veterans, including a community hub, café, events hall and memorial garden. However, a year later the UK s biggest armed forces charity pulled the plug on the scheme despite having submitted a planning application to Cheshire West and Chester Council.
GREEN LIGHT: Affordable housing at Horwich Loco Works development THE development of the former Horwich Loco Works is of ‘vital strategic importance to Bolton’ to avoid the need to build on green belt land, councillors have heard. The comments were made as Bolton Council’s planning committee unanimously approved plans for 116 housing association homes at the heart of the former works. However, the committee heard objections on heritage grounds about the affordable housing scheme at Rivington Chase, the 187-acre brownfield site of the former Horwich Loco Works. The developers said the homes will provide affordable housing for up to 385 people with a combination of family houses and apartments in two four-storey blocks that total 116 residential units.
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