Green light for Livesey’s £15m scheme

DEVELOPER PJ Livesey has won planning permission for a £15m scheme in Norfolk.
 
The Trafford Park based company will be redeveloping the derelict Ditchingham Maltings site after receiving the green light from the Broads Authority Planning Committee.

The scheme includes 105 residential units, some of which will be created from an historic silk mill building, which is being retained.

Other buildings on the site will be demolished and a third of the land will be opened up for public space.

It is the second major project in East Anglia for Livesey, after it completed the restoration and redevelopment of Read Mills in Norwich.

PJ Livesey director Ralph Brocklehurst said: “This is a challenging site that will be extremely testing but as a company we specialise in bringing historic structures like the Silk Mill building back into use.

“We have spent a lot of time talking to the local community and working with the planners and it was heartening to be at the meeting and hear the positive comments.”

Conditions include building a new access road over a brook and preserving individual bricks that have WWII graffiti, inscribed by US servicemen stationed in the area .