Kearsley site has residential planning permission - but nobody wants it
Residential planning permission has been approved for this Kearsley site, but nobody seems to want the stress.
After years of back and forth, a new housing development has been approved on a plot of land in Kearsley.
The site in question is along Springfield Road, already known to be quite a heavy residential area which ends with a school and industrial site.
It is a former railway cutting, accessed from the south by Springfield Road.
The plans were submitted back in 2022 by developers W. Maher and Sons where they have since had planning permission declined and had to change the submitted documents so they wouldn’t breach planning regulations.
The amended plans are for 36 houses along a strip of land between some existing houses and Kearsley Academy.
They will be a mix of one, two and three bedroom houses.
There will be 4 one bed houses, 12 two bed houses and 20 three bed houses being built. None of these will be over 2 storeys high.
The houses will be in a singular line, going from the edge of the road, all the way back to just after the academy.
Each house will come with 2 parking spots. One which will be on the driveway, and one on-street parking spot. This offers the potential for 72 extra cars accessing this site once fully built.
When speaking to a local resident, who doesn't wish to be named, she told me how work has recently been completed underneath the bridge to strengthen it for the existing school traffic and lorries that pass through. She is concerned that the addition of all these extra cars could make the area much more congested for the morning commuters, and not as pleasurable to live in what should be a quiet residential area.
As it stands, the site currently lies empty, boggy and full of fly tipped waste that would need to be cleared.
More than 50,000 cubic metres of clean fill material would be needed to level out the site before any buildings works could commence - a very expensive first task.
The land is currently for sale on Rightmove where the emphasis on the advertisement is that planning permission has been granted for 36 homes and it being an ‘ideal development opportunity’.
To find out more about this development, you can visit the Bolton planning register and quote the reference: 13910/22