A former social club near Wigan town centre could be transformed into 27 new affordable homes.
Stanley Land and Homes has unveiled an affordable homes plan where a formerly derelict social club used to sit before it was knocked down. The developer has submitted a planning application to create 27 new homes on land off Coop Street on the site of the former Scholes Social Club.
Neil Hughes, director of Stanley Land and Homes, comments: “This is another highly sustainable scheme – one that will regenerate a long-dormant brownfield site to provide much needed affordable homes close to Wigan town centre.
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“We have developed several sites in Wigan now and, through the great working relationship we have with the strategic housing team at Wigan Borough Council, we’ve been able to devise another quality scheme that will help to address the high demand in the area.”
According to the applicant, the three-storey apartment building has been designed in full compliance with Homes England quality standards and the Nationally Described Space Standards. Using alternative heating sources to gas, the scheme also promises to be fully compliant with the new building regulations uplift through heating and insulation to achieve a 31 per cent reduction in carbon emissions.
The developer has delivered affordable housing projects in the borough before. A completed 72-home site on Field Street and another 15-home development currenly under construction on Barracks Road, Bickershaw have both been successfully approved by the council.
The proposed apartment building, which is said to have been designed to be in keeping with properties in the local area, will sit in a landscaped plot with on-site car parking provided.
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