Poven Development’s 40-home scheme on a four-acre brownfield site in Merseyside has been granted planning permission.

Knowsley Council approved the application on Thursday.

Poven Development’s project would keep the gas distribution centre in the middle of the Prescot plot. This centre would remain active, with homes built on either side of it. A landscaped bund would separate the gas centre from the project’s residential elements.

Smith + Love Planning Consultants submitted proposals would see eight two-storey houses and six bungalows built east of the gas centre.

26 apartments would sit west of the gas centre across two blocks.

Due to it’s brownfield nature, the developer argued that the site icould not provide affordable housing in the project because of viability concerns.

Car parking would also be included in the scheme, as well as public realm and required infrastructure. Details for these elements will be revealed in a subsequent reserved matters application.

Snow Architects designed the scheme, with Milieu Landscape Design as landscape architect.

Sutcliffe is the structural engineer. Eddisons is the traffic and highways consultant. Hepworth Acoustics is the noise consultant and Arbor Consultancy is the arboricultural expert. Grasscroft Developments Solutions is advising on Section 106 matters.

Want to learn more about the project? The application’s reference number with Knowsley Council is 20/00746/OUT.