Pickering's Farm: Permission refused for 1,100 homes in Penwortham as one councillor asks, "How dare you?"

Members of South Ribble Borough Council’s planning committee threw out a joint bid by housebuilder Taylor Wimpey and the government’s housing delivery agency Homes England for the sprawling development on land off the A582 Penwortham Way.

The pair had a masterplan for the wider Pickering’s Farm plot dismissed just over a year ago after it was criticised by the committee for lacking the necessary detail - and they then subsequently withdrew outline applications for the dwellings that have now been put back on the table.