Hawarden housing plan faces community council objection over overdevelopment fears
Plans to demolish a derelict warehouse site in Hawarden and replace it with two detached houses have been opposed by Hawarden Community Council and a neighbour, who between them raise concerns about overdevelopment, parking, road safety and a planning appeal ruling from 2005.
The application, submitted to Flintshire County Council by Studio 9 Architecture on behalf of the applicant for the 0.44-hectare site at 92 The Highway.
The scheme would see the existing warehouse and land cleared and replaced by two four-bedroom homes, with new landscaping and parking accessed via Station Lane.
Hawarden Community Council’s planning committee considered the application at its meeting on 9 March 2026 and formally objected on the grounds of overdevelopment.
Overdevelopment was one of the grounds on which Flintshire County Council refused an earlier application for nine apartments on the same site in 2022.
A neighbour has also formally objected, raising nine further grounds of concern.
On parking, the objector says the council’s own standards require three spaces per four-bedroom home — six in total for the two properties. The plans show five.
The objection also challenges the description of one of the houses. House Type 2 is listed in the application as detached, but the objector says it would in fact be attached to two neighbouring buildings.
A third dispute concerns the rear garden of House Type 1. The application puts it at 70 square metres. The objector says it is closer to 48 square metres, which they say falls below the minimum required for a four-bedroom home.
The objection’s most detailed challenge concerns Station Lane itself.
A 2005 planning appeal, found that Station Lane could accommodate only one additional dwelling, that visibility looking toward Ewloe was seriously impaired and that the junction’s geometry and sightlines were deficient.
Since that determination, the objector says, the lane’s use has grown substantially.
Hawarden Railway Station now uses Station Lane for vehicular access. Adlink Offices, Morris Finance and Hawarden Dentists at 86/88 The Highway are all said to park vehicles in or access the lane regularly.
[One of the proposed houses – planning documents]
The objector argues the lane is already carrying more traffic than was considered in 2005, and that approving two additional homes would contradict the appeal decision and worsen the junction hazards.
A separate comment submitted alongside the application raises concerns about the impact of construction and development on utilities, drainage and a wall showing signs of subsidence at an adjacent NHS dental practice, and asks that access to the practice’s rear car park for staff and disabled patients is maintained.
The application was registered in February, the site plan was amended this week and the council is currently carrying out reconsultation.
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