PROPOSALS for 60 homes look set to get the green light at the third attempt.
Officers have recommended Blackburn with Darwen Council’s planning committee to approve the construction of the estate on Queen Victoria Street in Mill Hill.
And one businessman hopes it will be ‘a catalyst to the future regeneration of Mill Hill.’
The site is an irregular-shaped parcel of land to the north of Mill Hill train station which is empty except for some small industrial premises.
The application, by owner Mr T Lethbridge, follows a proposal for 66 houses being turned down by councillors in August 2009. A similar plan for 66 homes with parking and landscaping was withdrawn.
The latest scheme involves 60 three and four-bed-roomed homes in a mix of detached, semis and terraced house types with two road links to Queen Victoria Street.
Planners tell the committee there would be no loss of genuinely developable business use.
Dale Stokes, managing director of the nearby MDA logistics business at Waterfall Mill on Queen Victoria Stree said the scheme could be ‘a hopeful catalyst to the future regeneration of Mill Hill’.
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