Property briefs: Edge Hill student block; Ainscough Strategic Land; Northern Trust
EDGE Hill University has secured planning for a 245-bed student accommodation block at its campus in Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Consent was granted at a January 16 meeting of West Lancashire Borough Council’s planning committee.
The university was advised by a team at Manchester-based planning adviser Turley Associates.
Director David Diggle said: “Permission for this new on-campus accommodation block was achieved in under 12 weeks. The university fully supported, through the recently adopted West Lancashire Local Plan, the release of green belt land creating a new eastern campus that will facilitate further development and expansion. This is good news for Edge Hill University and its student population.”
Deputy vice chancellor Steve Igoe said: “Over the past decade we have spent some £200m on major building projects. We are continuing to enhance our student experience alongside our academic programmes and we are delighted with this speedy decision.”
Edge Hill has more than 20,000 full and part time students and employs over 3,000 people.
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AINSCOUGH Strategic Land Ltd (ASL) has won approval for 70 houses in Whitchurch, North Shropshire.
The proposal involves redeveloping a former dairy site on Mile Bank Road.
ASL land director Rachael Ainscough said: “We are delighted to start the year with another great planning success. We carried out extensive consultation with all local stakeholders and it is pleasing to see this work pay off, with all members voting in favour of the application.
“The site sits just outside of the town, benefiting from fabulous countryside views and as such has real potential to deliver a very unique, high quality housing development.”
Sebastian Tibenham at Pegasus Group advised ASL.
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CHORLEY-based property group Northern Trust has revealed plans to turn an industrial site in the East Midlands into a housing development.
Preston-based planning adviser De Pol Associates is working with Northern Trust to provide up to 80 new homes on its Faircharm Trading Estate off Evesham Road in Leicester.
A planning application which has now been submitted for a mix of detached, semi-detached and mews properties.
