300-plus homes plan for Poulton

Blackpool Council has revealed plans to build up to 330 new homes on a greenfield site in neighbouring Wyre borough.

Lancashire-based planning consultancy De Pol Associates has submitted an outline planning application for a site in Poulton-le-Fylde owned by the council.

The 12.2-hectare site at Woodhouse Farm lies to the south of Blackpool Road in the Carleton area.

In a statement the planning consultancy said: “Outline permission is being sought for up to 330 homes, the mix and tenure of which would be determined at the reserved matters stage, but it is anticipated that up to 30 per cent would comprise affordable properties.”

It says that the greenfield site was released from the Green Belt by the Wyre Local Plan in February this year.

And it adds that the site sits adjacent to, but not within, an area allocated by the Local Plan for 300 houses and a new primary school, for part of which there are pending applications.