Plans for more than 50 affordable homes just off a key corridor into Liverpool have been submitted to the city council.
Neighbourhood Services Company has submitted new plans for a site close to East Lancs Road, with 56 apartments and a new cafe set to be housed in seven buildings.
There is little detail available about the plans in publicly accessible documents on the council’s website - but a report submitted with the plans said they will be designed for older tenants.
The site sits just off Back Gilmoss Lane.
A report submitted with the application said: “The proposed residential development is for 56 no. retirement apartments on land that currently comprises vacant land and the grass lawn of the adjacent Alt Valley Skills Centre.”
The site is an irregular shape and borders a nearby school as well as the former cemetery of St. Swithin Church.
A separate section of the report said: “The application site currently comprises vacant land and the grass lawn of the adjacent Alt Valley Skills Centre.
“The site is an irregular ‘U’ shape which surrounds the Diddy Daycare day nursery and is bordered by Back Gilmoss Lane to the north- west, residential dwellings to the north, Our Lady’s and St. Swithin Primary School to the east and the Alt Valley Skills Centre / former St. Swithin Church cemetery to the south.”
The homes are set to be for either “affordable” or “social” rent.
Social rented housing is provided through registered housing providers for those who qualify, while “affordable” rent is a newer designation given to housing offered at a rent of no more than 80% of the market value.
Liverpool Council’s planning department will now consider the proposals.
