NEW homes could be built on a former pub site in Burtonwood.

Leigh-based Oak Tree Developments has applied for planning permission from Warrington Borough Council to construct 10 homes on the vacant land off Phipps Lane, formerly occupied by the Bridge Inn and Elm Tree pubs.

Warrington Guardian:

The proposed scheme will encompass eight homes of four or more bedrooms, plus two properties of unspecified size for social housing as well as 38 car parking spaces.

Previous proposals would have seen 18 homes built on the site, with the pubs demolished back in 2015 as the premises had ‘ceased to be operational and had fallen into disrepair.

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A number of residents have written both to object to and to support the scheme, while the council’s highways department has objected due to concerns over visibility at the entrance to the development on Phipps Lane.

Warrington Guardian:

Planning application documents state: "The application proposal for 10 family dwellings will make a modest, but nevertheless important, contribution to the local authority's housing land supply at a previously developed site which already benefits from extant permission for up to 18 dwellings."