HOUSEBUILDER Oakmere Homes has published images showing the houses they plan to build in a residential area of Barrow.

The development of 44 three- and four-bedroom properties, on an estate to be called The Woodlands off Meadowlands Avenue in Barrow, is still awaiting planning permission from Barrow Borough Council.


One of the proposed houses for Oakmere's Woodlands development The houses have been described by the developer as "superior" and "luxury" properties.

The plans however, have been met with fierce objections from local residents concerned about the risk to children playing in the street, fears of flooding and worries about increased congestion on an already busy street.

This is not the first time that a project based around Meadowlands has been put forward by developers.

Concerns have been raised in the past over developments on the same site in 1989 and 1999.

Reasons given at the time for the rejection were that there was no need to develop on good
One of the proposed houses for Oakmere's Woodlands development agricultural land, and that the green space was an important area of open countryside.

The design and access statement submitted by developer Oakmere Homes described the land as “vacant grassland” and that the new estate would “respect the existing settlement”.