CONTROVERSIAL plans for 3000 waterside flats on the Fylde coast in Lancashire have met a cool response from the local planning authority.
Kensington Developments wants to build the £600m scheme as part of a marina in Lytham, near Blackpool.

It already has planning permission for 500 homes to be built within 8 ha of the 28 ha site. The development could yield up to 1500 social homes as the council may soon demand 50% affordable housing of new schemes.

But Fylde council, which would rule on any new application, says it would rather see the brownfield site developed for industrial and employment use.

The site is currently used by 10 small businesses employing about 150 people. They and two residents' groups oppose the development.

Fylde council's executive director, Phil Woodward, said: "Apart from the 8 ha for which Kensington already has planning permission, this land is allocated in our local plan for industrial and employment use.

"Also, regional planning guidance is that we should be resisting further residential development in favour of a focus on the M62 corridor."

A spokesman for Kensington Developments said: "We are at the design stage at the moment; nothing has been decided upon definitely."

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Housing Today