New £2m homes site underway

NEW homes are starting to take shape at a £2m housing development which will transform a derelict site in the village of Banks, West Lancashire.

Manchester-based Harbur Construction is building 29 new properties at the site of the former St Stephen’s Primary School on land off Hoole Lane.

The project, comprising 12 two bedroom and five, three bedroom houses, as well as a block of 12 one bedroom flats, will regenerate the brownfield site which has stood empty since the school closed 18 years ago.

Harbur Construction is building the back into use, but also boosting the provision scheme on behalf of TAC Developments of high quality affordable housing for One Vision Housing, which will make in this area of West Lancashire.” the homes available for affordable rent. The properties have been designed

Richard Hutchinson, managing direc- sensitively to fit in with the architectural tor at Harbur Construction, said: “The style of housing neighbouring the site. school that previously occupied the land All homes will feature fully-turfed rear relocated back in 1998, so the site has gardens, while a communal private garden become a real eyesore in the ensuing will serve the apartment block. years. The scheme has been designed by

“The development ends almost two Paddock Johnson Partnership and is decades of uncertainty for local residents, expected to be completed in February not only helping to bring the land 2017.