The East Lancashire Paper Mill Island site forms part of a wider residential masterplan in the Radcliffe area. Working with Great Places, we are helping design and deliver 27 affordable new homes on the part-brownfield site. Once complete, it will act as a gateway to the wider regeneration.

Great Places are leading the transformation of part of the East Lancashire Paper Mill Sites in partnership with Bury Council and Homes England. We have led the architectural design of the scheme, with Great Place’s in-house construction company Terra Nova delivering the scheme.

The 27-home neighbourhood will be of a mix of one and two-bed apartments available for social rent and three and four-bed houses for affordable rent. The development has been sensitively designed in response to the surrounding area and sites heritage. The red-bricked terraced homes are three storey in height, with small front gardens and private amenity garden areas to the rear which aim to reflect Victorian housing in the locale.

The design of the neighbouring three-storey apartment building responds to the industrial design of the former paper mill buildings and is constructed of red brick with slate effect roof tiles. The building stands taller than the new housing and has tall, pitched roofs to create a feature for the locality and to mark the gateway to the rest of the paper mill site. Our proposals also include the creation of two new areas of public open space and road improvement works.

The development is part of a wider plan by Morris Homes, Bury Council and Homes England to deliver up to 400 homes at the adjacent 22-acre brownfield site.