AN innovative plan to build a bungalow that would be heated without the need for any form of fossil fuel has been put to Warrington planners.
The new dwelling would be built on the site of a disused swimming pool, the shell of which would be retained and capped to become a solar-heated reservoir providing heat for the whole of the new bungalow.
Roof-mounted solar panels would heat the water.
The applicant has told planners: “We feel that this innovative means for space heating would demonstrate that new build properties could and should adopt similar solar heating systems which would assist in the quest to reduce greenhouse emissions.”
The scheme involves land in Stretton Road, Stretton, formerly part of the garden of an adjacent house, “Wardleys.”
Warrington Borough Council planners have been told the existing building would be demolished and replace with a bungalow with open plan lounge, dining room and kitchen, constructed to form a highly insulated building.
The existing pool shell would be capped with an insulated concrete slab which would form the new ground floor.
When filled with water and heated by means of roof-mounted solar heating panels, the pool would form a solar heat reservoir which would negate the need for any form of fossil fuels for space heating the building.
The development would result in no loss of existing vegetation or biodiversity and would make efficient use of previously developed land and have no greater impact on the Green Belt than the swimming pool building
It would enhance an untidy and dilapidated site and contribute to meeting Warrington’s housing shortage.
Planning officers will now study the proposals.
An earlier plan to replace the swimming pool building with a dwelling was refused in 2021.
The swimming pool buildng
