William Young Way, Sandyforth Lane, Preston, PR4

A largely greenfield Residential Development Site extending to 1.22 acres or thereabouts, located at the junction of William Young Way & Sandyforth Lane, Lightfoot Green, Preston. 

Tender Date: 12 noon Friday 3rd October 2025.

The site is located on the north-east side of, and with frontage to, William Young Way (B5467) at its junction with Sandyforth Lane, at Lightfoot Green on the northern outskirts of Preston. It is centred on Grid Reference 351336 : 433658.

Access to the site is via a field gate off Sandyforth Lane.

The site extends to 1.22 acres or thereabouts and comprises a grass field and the remains of former equestrian facilities, associated with the adjoining property, 'Mericourt', now operated as a day care nursery.

NB. The Vendor also owns the paddock on the south-west side of William Young Way, to which reference is made in some of the technical pack documents.

Planning
Planning policies for the area of the site are contained in the adopted Preston Local Plan (Site Allocations and Development Management Policies) 2012-26. The site lies within the North West Preston Strategic Location to which Local Plan Policy MD2 applies. In addition, Preston City Council has adopted (March 2017) the North West Preston Masterplan Supplementary Planning Document, which "seeks to expand on the level of detail in Policy MD2 by providing an indicative framework and general design principles to guide development in a co-ordinated and comprehensive way. The Masterplan will be a material consideration in the determination of planning applications in the area and sets out how the Council would like to see the adopted criteria of Policy MD2 implemented."

It is considered that there is presumption in favour of development of the site, subject to its access arrangements being acceptable to Lancashire County Council, the relevant highway authority. The technical information pack includes a Highways Pre-Application Advice from Lancashire County Council which confirms that, subject to design, a vehicular access to the site off William Young Way would be acceptable.

Services
All mains services are understood to be available in the vicinity of the site.

Tenure
The site is freehold, registered with title absolute, comprising part of Title No.LA409905.

The site has the benefit of a Memorandum of Agreement whereby on the grant of planning permission, the Vendors can require Lancashire County Council to transfer back such part of the land, compulsorily purchased for the construction of the East West Link Road (now William Young Way), as is required to facilitate the development. This is addressed in the Highways Pre-Application Advice.