The Lanes

Our proposals include up to 1,100 new homes, including affordable homes for local people, a two-form entry primary school, local shops, flexible workspace, community facilities and extensive areas of open green space. A local centre will also sit at the heart of the development, which will be well connected with pedestrian and cycle links. The Local Centre will contain a range of services and facilities for the use of residents of the development and the surrounding area.

Incorporating a number of the principles of Garden Villages, our proposals for The Lanes include the delivery of a variety of play spaces as well as footpaths and cycleways to encourage sustainable modes of transport. The Lanes has been designed in line with Building for a Healthy Life objectives (the Government-endorsed industry standard to help improve the design of new and growing neighbourhoods). The proposals consider the identified components of successful places and how these can be best applied to the individual characteristics of the site and its wider context. We have prepared a Design Code to facilitate a consistent high quality of development on The Lanes, which could be replicated across all the land parcels within the Masterplan area which are controlled by third parties. The development will also see huge levels of investment in South Ribble Borough which will go towards providing the local area with new roads, better public transport, improved public spaces and reduced congestion.

Our plans for The Lanes include up to 1,100 new homes, including affordable homes for local people. The planning applications propose 30% affordable housing which will deliver up to 330 affordable homes. 

A range of one, two, three and four bedroom mews, semi-detached, detached houses and apartments are proposed. In addition, there is an opportunity for a proportion of the new homes to provide specialist elderly accommodation.

The Masterplan demonstrates that in addition to delivering a substantial part of the allocation, the development of The Lanes as proposed by the two outline applications will not prejudice the remainder of the allocation, or the land safeguarded for future development, from coming forward in a comprehensive manner in future.

Our plans include a network of cycle paths and footpaths so that residents can choose sustainable modes of transport to connect to both the surrounding area and on-site facilities.
As well as this, a number of play spaces, a local centre and a new primary school will all be within walking distance of the proposed homes. 

This will be achieved through the delivery of a variety of sustainable drainage features. This will include creating basins on site to hold surface water run-off, before controlling the release of this water through a swale and pipe system. Swales are shallow, broad and vegetated channels designed to store and/or convey water run-off. 

The existing lanes and property on the site will continue to be drained by the existing land drainage system. This system will be maintained, upgraded and diverted as necessary to ensure that existing land drainage flows drain independently of the main pipe systems. 

The vision for the site includes the retention of as much of the existing mature trees, hedges, and even previous field boundaries as is possible, along with habitat creation such as the integration of bat and bird boxes into 20% of the new residential dwellings on the site. 

Any habitats lost through development would be offset through a biodiversity offsetting exercise. This will ensure The Lanes proposals deliver a net-gain for biodiversity in the long term.

The allocation site is approximately 78 hectares in size and is earmarked for a range of land uses including residential, employment and commercial, as well as areas of green open space, and community facilities. Taylor Wimpey and Homes England will deliver approximately two thirds of the total allocation site.

Following a period of public consultation, all comments from the local community were considered and we prepared a draft Masterplan and an outline planning application for The Lanes which were submitted to South Ribble Borough Council (SRBC) in December 2019. 
In September 2020, the draft Masterplan was rejected at SRBC’s Planning Committee. We withdrew our outline planning application in March 2021 so that we could reconsider the proposals and revise our plans.
We have now submitted two revised outline planning applications on adjoining land parcels at The Lanes, as well as an updated Masterplan to South Ribble Borough Council for consideration.

A home is more than just a house, it's also about the community that surrounds it. That’s why we're invested in building communities that support local businesses, provide much needed facilities for the area and bring people together.

If our planning application for The Lanes is approved, we anticipate the creation of around 275 new jobs per year in the construction period, including youth training opportunities.

We will also make a significant investment to South Ribble Borough Council which will go towards providing the local area with new roads, better public transport, improved public spaces and reducing congestion.

Our proposals for The Lanes include significant areas of public open space and play areas for residents and the wider community to enjoy. 

As part of our proposal for The Lanes, we plan to deliver a range of new facilities to complement existing services within the wider community. This will include a new two form entry primary school, shops, flexible workspace and a local centre at the heart of the site.