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Preston Campaigners Celebrate Rejected Housing Plans (1 November 2011)

Date: 01/11/2011
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Preston Campaigners Celebrate Rejected Housing Plans

Campaigners are celebrating the rejection of a plan to construct 550 new homes on a former Preston golf club. Since 2008, residents in the former golf club’s surrounding areas have been battling against plans for a large housing estate to be built on the 70 hectares of land. Northern Trust, the owner of the site, had already faced a rejection by Preston Council and a Planning Inquiry yet the firm appealed against the Planning Inspector’s decision to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government who agreed that the plans should not receive approval.

Preston Councillor, Bill Shannon, a representative for the Ingol ward in which the former golf club is based, claimed that the rejection brought good news for Ingol residents. Bruce Ellison, the Ingol Golf Village Residents’ Association’s chairman, claimed to feel elated at hearing the news. Mr. Ellison warned that they would be required to wait a further six weeks to discover whether or not Northern Trust would to appeal the rejection to the High Court.

A Northern Trust spokesperson told of how the company was disappointed with the rejection but claimed that the Secretary of State agreed that the site was in an attractive location for new housing and could be suitably developed for a range of affordable and market housing. The Secretary of State had confirmed that the proposed plans would fail to result in highway congestion and would grant an appropriate habitat for the region’s protected wildlife.

Duncan Lewis’ conveyancing solicitors are able to provide legal assistance to commercial and residential clients.