Plans for as much as 250 new properties on a former quarry site in Carnforth have been rejected – in opposition to the advice of council officers.
Councillors mentioned the plans for the Lundsfield Quarry site on the planning committee assembly at present, Monday.
Officers had really helpful the scheme be authorized, however councillors went in opposition to their recommendation and turned down the proposals.
Nexus Planning on behalf of Homes England had utilized for define planning permission in 2019 to construct the new homes at Lundsfield Quarry, to the south and east of Carnforth Rangers Football Club.
The applicant wished to demolish present buildings (together with a home) and construct as much as 250 homes with an related new entry, infrastructure and soccer membership automobile/coach parking.
The proposal would have included two zones for residential growth – a small space across the Kellet Road entrance and a bigger space within the physique of the site.
The software on the time mentioned it was “an opportunity to clean up a contaminated brownfield site” and homes would come with a mix of quick terraces and townhouses and a small variety of ‘mews’/ terraced homes.
The causes for delay have been largely associated to objections and issues from statutory and non-statutory consultees related to the impression on the continued and future use of the adjoining soccer enjoying area, ecological impacts, the feasibility of securing hyperlinks over the canal, site capability and flood threat.
Amendments to the proposal have been acquired in summer season 2023, along with a full package deal of up-to-date supporting paperwork.
Following this, a closing suite of amendments was acquired in August 2024 amending the event proposal to incorporate the supply of a soccer membership automobile/coach parking space.
Delays continued in response to modifications to nationwide and native planning coverage, together with the adoption of the Climate Emergency Local Plan, and because of the publication of the native planning authority’s Strategic Flood Risk Assessment and the implications to the evaluation of the appliance.
The site consists of a mixture of greenfield and beforehand developed land together with a part of the Lundsfield Quarry North Biological Heritage Site (BHS), Lundsfield Regionally Important Geological Site and intensive areas of woodland.
The canal extends alongside the western boundary of the site and can also be designated as a BHS and is regarded a non-designated heritage asset.
