Planning permission to demolish workshops on Clegge Street for housing refused by Warrington Borough Council

Bluebell Developments had applied for planning permission to bulldoze the workshops on Clegge Street, which have been vacant since July last year, and build eight two-bedroom apartments.

But the applicant was rejected over concerns surrounding access routes, parking and living conditions for prospective residents.

The council’s planning department found that access to the development was ‘inadequate’, with roads not of a sufficient width to accommodate a two-way traffic flow.

All windows of the ground floor apartments in several blocks would face the existing boundary wall, raising worries that this would ‘result in a poor outlook and oppressive living environment for future occupiers’.

Meanwhile, proposed parking spaces would not be the required 6m width.

Proposals for 10 two-bedroom apartments on the site had previously been refused by the council in January last year on the grounds of overdevelopment.