{"id":26332,"date":"2020-05-19T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26332"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:58:51","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-doorstep-is-this-the-right-time-to-seek-permission-for-200-houses-on-prescot-garden-centre-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26332","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Is this the right time to seek permission for 200 houses on Prescot garden centre site?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Housing developer Taylor Wimpey is seeking planning permission to replace a garden centre in Prescot with 200 houses, but some local councillors say now is not the right time, the St Helens Reporter <\/em>highlights.<\/h3>\n

The St Helens Reporter<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

The plans would see 227 homes built on a site in Prescot currently occupied by Whitakers Garden Centre, with the garden centre itself moved to a different location in the town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The site was removed from the green belt in 2016 and plans for the new development were originally expected to be put forward at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Taylor Wimpey has said the development will bring \u201cmuch-needed new homes, investment and economic benefit\u201d to the area.<\/p>\n

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But councillors in Prescot are understood to be unhappy with the timing of the application, saying the coronavirus lockdown means the public cannot be consulted properly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Coun Carl Cashman described the application as \u201ca complete and utter disgrace\u201d and called on Knowsley Council to postpone considering it until the lockdown had been lifted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said: \u201cThere cannot be proper public consultation at this time due to the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMany people who live in the area surrounding Whitakers are elderly with no access to computers so will not be able to participate in any online consultation which I assume the \u2018public consultation\u2019 will be based [on].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMany people need a physical consultation to put the application into visual perspective. Equally, others will want the application explaining verbally. This will not be possible in the current climate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany people will be worrying about their family and how they will afford their next weekly shop. Now is not the time to try to force through something when local people\u2019s attention is focused on more important issues surrounding the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Liberal Democrat group leader also warned that considering the proposal now would look like \u201cpushing the application through the back door\u201d…..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAs a result, Knowsley Council will now assess this application and if it is judged to be sufficiently complete, public consultation on the proposed development will begin, as early as later this week….<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government is encouraging applications to be continued during COVID-19, so we are approaching our plans to bring investment back to Prescot positively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Housing developer Taylor Wimpey is seeking planning permission to replace a garden centre in Prescot with 200 houses, but some local councillors say now is not the right time, the St Helens Reporter highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26363,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26332\/revisions\/26363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}