A DEVELOPER has won permission to install signage at the site of an upcoming housing development.

Consent was sought to display three low-level directional boards, a V-stack advertising board, 10 flag poles two facia signs to a sales garage at land off Rookery Lane and Higher Lane, in Rainford.

Land at the site was purchased by Miller Homes to build 307 homes, the Star reported earlier this year.

The 32-acre location, off Higher Lane and Rookery Lane, will be named Dial House Place, after the nearby Dial House Wood, and will offer a mix of one, two, three, and four-bedroom properties, around a third of which are set to be affordable homes.

Proposals were initially accepted in 2023 by St Helens Council, with planning committee members voting in favour of the controversial proposals, despite more than 200 resident objections to the scheme.

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The developer has since submitted proposals to install temporary signs at the site.

In a report, planning officer Tony Jackson said: "Whilst the proposed signs are numerous and concentrated on the northern part of the site these would all be for a relatively temporary time scale as once the housing site was fully developed they would be removed, and as such are deemed to be acceptable with limited impact upon the surrounding occupiers of the site".

Consent for the signage was granted.