HOUSING chiefs at Warrington have withdrawn a planning application for an affordable housing development for vulnerable people because of potential flooding issues.
The development of six one-bedroom flats was proposed for land at the junction of Alder Lane and Winwick Road, Orford – the site of an existing supported accommodation complex.
When the application by the borough council’s affordable housing services department came before members of the planning committee, a report was still awaited from the Environment Agency.
But a report by the council’s own planning department, while noting that the site was in a flood zone and that the flats would provide accommodation for vulnerable persons in need of housing, recommended the development could go ahead, subject to approval from the Environment Agency, because the sustainability benefits to the community outweighed the flood risk.
The report stated the flats would provide short term accommodation for homeless people and there was no comparable facility anywhere else in he borough.
HOUSING chiefs at Warrington have withdrawn a planning application for
an affordable housing development for vulnerable people because of
potential flooding issues.
Flood risks hit homes plan
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