Plans for a controversial major Knowsley development have moved forward after permission was granted for nearly 400 new homes last week.
Part of a wider project, the Halsnead Garden Village in Whiston, which has been dubbed one of the largest mixed use developments in the north west, the latest proposals have been six years in the making and have attracted some objections from local residents.
The site had previously been partly greenbelt but became earmarked for housing several years ago in the borough’s Local Plan. Part of Knowsley ’s “ambitious” house building strategy, the Halsnead Garden Village site is set for around 1600 properties in total once completed, radically transforming a once sleepy part of the borough.
