New homes plan for Whalley

2:00pm Saturday 28th July 2012 in Ribble Valley news

PROTESTERS against housing developments in the Ribble Valley have said they are still worried about the borough’s future, despite a large project being refused.

Proposals for 55 homes and a 50 bed nursing home for land at Lawsonsteads, near Whalley, were thrown out by Ribble Valley councillors after concerns over traffic, school places and its location on a green field site.

But just a day after the application was refused, another application for 137 homes at land off Mitton Road was handed in by David Wilson Homes.

The plans include 116 two, three, four and five bedroom houses as well as 21 one bedroom bungalows.

Nick Walker, chairman of the Save Whalley Village Action Group, said the refusal was just a drop in the ocean as new applications were still coming through.

He said: “We are very pleased that the council has confirmed the decision to refuse planning persmission for the Lawsonsteads development.

“We have won one and now we wait to see if they appeal.

“But we take one step forward and another back because David Wilson Homes has just submitted an application for Mitton Road, in Whalley.

“We just feel that there is a frenzy and the developers are just land grabbing. “We will have to fight this one too, but it is important to point out that we are not against all development, just development on this scale.

“We are a village and when you keep adding all of the developments up, it won’t be a village anymore.”

Andrew Taylor, planning director at David Wilson Homes North West said: “The proposed scheme offers a range of high quality family houses as well as affordable housing and bungalows.

“This application follows extensive consultation with the local authority, councillors and local residents.

“The application could be approved by November, allowing much needed open market and affordable dwellings to be built and occupied from mid 2013.”

Comments(14)

charles22 says...
3:36pm Sat 28 Jul 12

I recall a conversation I had with a Whalley resident when I first moved to Lancashire - "don't buy a house in Whalley, we don't like strangers movning in..." Now, maybe it was just him, while other Whalley people are lovely, and are genuinely concerned about the school being over-populated. However it does have a feeling of pull up the drawbridge, Jack, I'm all right.

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2 for 5p says...
8:00pm Sat 28 Jul 12

You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.

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Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
9:52pm Sat 28 Jul 12

2 for 5p wrote:
You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.
Hey its our friend Richard

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Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
9:53pm Sat 28 Jul 12

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58 wrote:
2 for 5p wrote:
You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.
Hey its our friend Richard
Last name Head

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Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
9:53pm Sat 28 Jul 12

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin

ce58 wrote:
2 for 5p wrote:
You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.
Hey its our friend Richard
Last name Head
We all know him as D!ck Head

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UKIP-Ron says...
10:01pm Sat 28 Jul 12

welcome to whalley city to be.
the developers will always win, they have the backing of the EU who is forcing the UK goverment into more housing development , plus the labour and now the conservatives have big developers giving them big back handers for the privalge of making multi million pounds profit from each development.
the land owner at henthorn is now worth £16 million if the rumours are right. add that same amount for thedevelopers profit and see why whalley and clitheroe are being targeted..

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mudshark says...
4:07am Sun 29 Jul 12

build it, they will come

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mudshark says...
4:08am Sun 29 Jul 12

build it , they will come

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2 for 5p says...
8:12am Sun 29 Jul 12

What whalley needs is a large social housing project

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eastlancslad says...
10:07am Sun 29 Jul 12

The Ribble Valley is attractive to house builders only because they can sell the houses for more money there.
It's nothing to do with 'need', and everything to do with profit.
If planning applications cost £50k per house, there would suddenly be no 'need' to build them.
All this has been said before, and no doubt will have to be said again.

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Malthus says...
1:28pm Sun 29 Jul 12

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin

ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin


ce58 wrote:
2 for 5p wrote:
You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.
Hey its our friend Richard
Last name Head
We all know him as D!ck Head
You might know him as that. I, however, think he has a valid point.The NIMBYs of the Ribble Valley need to realise that time does not stand still in their part of the world.

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flagstone says...
1:46pm Sun 29 Jul 12

The truth of the matter is this : Whalley has not been a village since the two bob millionaires moved in it Mitton and Brockhall.The real locals tried in vain to stop them from ruining it and that wasn't to be with schools promised and reneged on !!
The ones who are kicking up a stink now ,are the same hypocrites a lot of the time who ignored our feelings and rode rough shot over what damage it would do to Whalley and the surrounding villages.The same ones who clog the village with their huge four wheel drive Chelsea tractors who double park so the busses cannot get through or just park on the kerb outside the chemist , with i am too special to walk attitude . I am a local villager who has lived here for over forty years man and boy and you all make me sick with your two faced attitudes , live with it like we have had to do for the last twenty years , kettle calling pot black springs to mind

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2 for 5p says...
10:04pm Sun 29 Jul 12

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin

ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin


ce58 wrote:
2 for 5p wrote:
You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.
Hey its our friend Richard
Last name Head
We all know him as D!ck Head
hey Micheal you fag smoking sh¿t head why don't you go and chocke yourself on your duty free fake cigarettes you w#n%er.
You are useless.

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Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
2:34pm Mon 30 Jul 12

2 for 5p wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin

ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin


ce58 wrote:
Michael@ClitheroeSin



ce58 wrote:
2 for 5p wrote:
You ribble valley lot make me sick.
What makes you lot so flaming special, the country is in need of new housing to house the expanding popuation. Everywere is having to build new houses.
Hey its our friend Richard
Last name Head
We all know him as D!ck Head
hey Micheal you fag smoking sh¿t head why don't you go and chocke yourself on your duty free fake cigarettes you w#n%er.
You are useless.
Has something upset you? lol

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