PLOTS of land have gone up for sale at former Blackburn Rovers captain Garry Flitcroft's exclusive housing development.

Mr Flitcroft, now the manager of non-league Chorley, is hoping to attract footballers into the scheme on the site of the former Victoria Mill in Chapeltown, Turton.

Seven plots of land have now gone on the market for the first time, with prices starting at £350,000.

The plots each have planning permission for a Huf Haus, a buyer-designed kit house developed in Germany which are ready to move into within nine months of purchasing the land.

Mr Flitcroft, a partner in Bromley Cross-based William Thomas Estate Agents, has come a long way since his first venture into the property market as a young professional at Manchester City.

He said: “Huf Haus have never done a development like this so I am pleased that it is going to be in the North West and I have to thank Blackburn with Darwen Council because they were a different class.”

Permission was granted in 2004 to convert the 150-year-old mill into 14 apartments, and a structural survey was carried out after amendments to the plan were approved in 2008.

With the Huf Haus costing anything upwards of £500,000, on top of the cost of the land, the exclusive estate is sure to be popular with footballers, celebrities or those with a large disposable income.

He said: “I have dropped a few brochures off with the players at Bolton Wanderers and at Blackburn Rovers and I’ll be dropping some off at Manchester City as well.

“It is a very exclusive development and once you are inside one it is even more spectacular.”

The first Huf Haus was built in the UK in 1997 but the concept shot into the public eye in 2004 when it was championed on Channel 4’s Grand Designs programme.

Since then there has been more than 150 homes built across the country, mainly in the south of England.