More homes to be added to golf course plot in new plans

The council has approved 402 new homes for Ingol Golf Course, but Anwyl Homes wants to build 164 more

Plans have been unveiled for the latest wave of new housing to be built on a former golf course – adding more than 100 homes to the site than were originally envisaged for it.

Preston City Council has approved 402 new homes for the plot off Tanterton Hall Lane, in Preston, but Anwyl Homes wants to build 164 more, making a total of 567.

When outline planning permission was controversially granted for the redevelopment of the former Ingol golf course in 2017, up to 450 dwellings were to be permitted.

At that time, the site was also to house a proposed new first-team training facility for Preston North End, but the plan was never realised.

Affordable homes

The outline 2017 planning permission has long since expired and the parcel of land now being eyed by the housebuilder was never developed – meaning the latest housing bid has been submitted as a standalone, full application.

In documents submitted to town hall planners, the firm stressed that “the principle of residential development” had already been established by the previous permissions.

The company added that the construction of several other estates on the site had “already fundamentally changed the way in which the location is appreciated” – and said that in pre-application discussions with the city council, the authority acknowledged the “material consideration” of the previous approvals it had granted in the location.

Anwyl is pledging that 50 of its proposed dwellings – in its two and three-bedroomed ranges – will fall into the discounted affordable homes category.  

The remainder – which will have between three and five bedrooms – will be for sale on the open market.

Ingol Golf Course and Squash Club opened in 1981, before closing in 2010.  After a three-year hiatus, the golf course began operating again, but closed after the redevelopment plans were passed in 2017.