All posts tagged "housing"

  • Deadline Nears for Comments on Taylor Wimpey Housing Development

    The public have till Sunday 10 May* to comment on plans to build more than 200 houses on the Whitakers Garden Centre site in Prescot. Taylor Wimpey have applied to build an estate of 227 residences on...

    • Posted May 7, 2020
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  • Planning Application Refused for Whitakers Land

    An application to build houses on former greenbelt in Prescot has been refused. Beesley & Fildes, Ltd, applied in 2016 to build up to 200 homes on land adjoining Whitakers Garden Centre, off Liverpool Road. They withdrew...

    • Posted April 26, 2017
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  • Developers Withdraw Prescot Planning Application

    An application for a residential development on part of Prescot’s former greenbelt has been withdrawn. The proposal would have seen 199 houses built on land adjacent to Whitakers Garden Centre on Liverpool Road. Council advised against plans...

    • Posted July 18, 2016
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  • Prescot Family Stage Protest against KHT

    A family of nine held a protest outside their home today (Monday 4 April), claiming Knowsley Housing Trust have let them down. Banners outside the Jones family’s house in Lathum Close, Prescot, read, “Neglected and abused by...

    • Posted April 4, 2016
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  • Housing Plans for Fields Neighbouring Whitakers, Prescot

    Prescot residents are invited to view plans for a housing development on land belonging to Whitakers Garden Centre. Planners believe about 200 3- or 4-bedroom homes could be built on the site, which sits between the A57 (Prescot...

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • Prescot Greenbelt Campaign Underway

    A campaign to save Prescot’s greenbelt from development is underway, with a meeting organised for Wednesday 18 March. The gathering is open to residents of Prescot and other parts of Knowsley affected by plans to remove protection...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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  • Our Patch: Save Whiston’s Greenbelt

    I come to my computer with my heart still pounding, struggling to regulate my breath after witnessing an amazing life or death situation happen in our patch. I was walking on the fields behind Foxshaw Close and,...

    • Posted October 3, 2014
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  • Council Plan to Give up Prescot, Whiston Greenbelt

    Knowsley Council’s Local Plan will allow residential developments on greenbelt across the borough, including Prescot and Whiston. Among the previously protected land now earmarked for housing are the fields between the Prescot bypass and Whitaker’s Garden Centre, and most of...

    • Posted October 1, 2014
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  • Lib Dem Activist Opposes Prescot Waste Site

    Carl Cashman, well known for his local activism on behalf of Whiston and Prescot, sends me this item from the latest edition of Prescot Focus: CARL CASHMAN SLAMS LABOUR IN WASTE SITE UPDATE FOR PRESCOT RESIDENTS Lib...

    • Posted March 23, 2012
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  • More on Carr Lane, Prescot, Waste Site & Housing Development

    Yesterday, I reported that a commercial and industrial waste facility will be built at the old Pirelli/Prysmian/BICC Cables site on Carr Lane, Prescot. There is also talk of a housing development on the adjacent or surrounding land, and...

    • Posted January 31, 2012
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