Sites identified for new housing
LANCASTER Abattoir and the former Bubbles site in Morecambe are among possible locations for new housing.
The city council has released details of a list of potential housing sites identified across the district.
The final report, which follows months of assessment, pinpoints 101 sites in the district – both greenfield and brownfield – deemed suitable for housing.
Together they have the potential to accommodate 6,995 properties, which would meet national guidelines for housing need in the district.
Almost all of the sites are in accordance with the council's policy of urban concentration, which seeks to direct 90 per cent of future housing developments to the main urban areas of Lancaster, Morecambe, Heysham and Carnforth.
Possible sites were identified through a variety of sources, including a successful 'call for sites' exercise last summer, in which members of the public identified more than 500 potential sites.
Included on the list of brownfield sites are:
* Carnforth Quarry (200)
* The Abattoir, Lancaster (potential for 153 houses)
* Former Chorley Nissan garage, Wheatfield Street, Lancaster (100)
* Halton Training Camp (273)
* Frontierland (190)
* Lancaster Leisure Park (210)
* Bubbles site, Morecambe (190)
Large greenfield sites include land at Bailrigg Lane, Grab Lane and Whinney Carr in Lancaster, all of which could potentially form urban extensions to the city.
Smaller sites such as Moor Platt at Caton and Vale of Lune RUFC in Lancaster, are also included, as well as land with schemes already in the pipeline such as the Centros canal corridor development, Luneside West and East, the Moor Hospital site, Nightingale Hall Farm and Halton Mills.
Among those discarded as unacceptable were TDG in Carnforth, Standfast in Caton, Farmfoods in Lancaster, Regents and Venture Caravan Parks in Morecambe and Heysham Power Station.
The report is just one piece of a much wider evidence base which the council must consider when planning for the future of the district.
Identification or exclusion in this report does not mean that sites will or will not be developed.
The report is available to view at www.lancaster.gov.uk/SHLAA.
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