520 more homes given approval to be built in Winsford

Housing developers have been given the green light to build more than 500 new homes in Winsford, including a 401-house development on the site of the Woodford Lodge High School.Full planning permission has been given to the plans to build 401 homes, with 696 parking spaces, in Woodford Lane West, as well as full permission for a controversial 119-homes development at Winsford Flashes on land off Ways Green.The two developments will bring 520 new homes to the town.One Winsford town councillor, Cllr Charlie Parkinson, is concerned that the ‘more than half’ of the 3,500 housing provision target of the Neighbourhood Plan, are being built less than two years into a 15-year plan.The 401-home Keepmoat Homes site will cover 32 acres and will comprise 22 one-bed apartments, 109 two-bed houses, 210 three-bed houses and 60 four-bed houses.A central village garden with natural play will be situated at the centre of the development, with the aim of creating a central hub.