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Darwen housing estate work to resume after 18 months

2:42pm Friday 4th December 2009


WORK to complete the Belgrave Heights housing development is to restart in the New Year after a delay of more than 18 months.

Liverpool-based McInerney Homes started construction on the former site of Belgrave Mill in September 2006.

So far, 44 of the 135 homes set to be built on the site have been completed.

The work ground to a halt in July 2008 because of the troubled finanical climate, but the company said it was confident of completion in 2010.

Stephen Grant, marketing and sales director for McInerney Homes North West, says: “We're absolutely committed to completing Belgrave Heights and have invested a great deal in the remediation of the site, which is all set for creating the extension to our already established community of 45 finished new homes.

“We will build another 90 homes and aim to be back selling early in 2010, as we hope to see a change in the market with mortgage lending criteria easing and house prices reported to be continuing to rise”


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pwei73, Darwen says...
4:15pm Fri 4 Dec 09

should have left the mill open would have been more use than those houses

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CapitaBackHander, Darren says...
5:05pm Fri 4 Dec 09

I think the wall at the front is a bit small, would it be possible to add a few feet?

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Jimpster, Blackburn says...
6:00pm Fri 4 Dec 09

shhhh the local mafia may have added a few feet at the bottom ;)

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pwei73, Darwen says...
8:09am Mon 7 Dec 09

CapitaBackHander wrote:
I think the wall at the front is a bit small, would it be possible to add a few feet?
i agree at least another 6ft it a bigger eye sore than the mill used to be

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amazed, Darwen says...
7:11pm Mon 7 Dec 09

DOWN WITH THE BERLIN WALL!! Whoever gave permission for this eyesore to be built should be removed from his job - The Labour administration no doubt agreed it!! (Come on "Guardian") We even have TWO walls now. The back one already showing the white stains of presumably lime coming through the stonework. What a mess - plus the green monster of a Leisure Centre in, appropriately, Green Street. Who agreed those panels - I have no doubt the interior is "mind-blowing" but the exterior, apart from the variegated ceramic panels is an atrocity. Traffic dirt will form in no time - see the other "architectural masterpiece" on Berry Street.

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amazed, Darwen says...
1:42pm Thu 10 Dec 09

I'm amazed - where are the five other comments?

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amazed, Darwen says...
1:52pm Thu 10 Dec 09

Aha, they have re-appeared like magic - I thought that we may have been censored!!
Where is "Guardian" I expected retribution from David when I criticised the Planning Authority under the last Labour Administration for allowing the "Berlin Walls" to be built, but "No". He did not leap like a leopard to the defence of Janet Anderson when I also commented on her involvement in some other matter - has he at last retired, wounded, from the fray?

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