“Affordable” homes plan approved

FOUR new “affordable” homes for rent will be built on land off Longshaw Street, Warrington.
The borough council’s development management committee has given the green light for the scheme on a former garage site which was cleared several years ago and is now an area of open, hard-standing.
To the north is open land, to the east the rear gardens of houses in Marshall Avenue and to the south and west, semi-detached properties on Dagnall Avenue and Longsaw Street.
Dallam local centre is within a two-minute walk and has a convenience store, pharmacy and 20 new properties approved in 2015 as part of a wider regeneration of the area.
The apartments, which will be available to rent, will be within a two-storey block, sub-divided centrally and joined by a short, flat-roofed link.