How many houses in south Lancaster? 3,500 or 9,135?

The story so far . . .

1. In September 2017 Lancashire County Council agreed to submit bids to the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) – including a bid for approx. £150 million for up to 5,000 new homes in South Lancaster.
2. The Issues and Options Paper for Bailrigg Garden Village (May 2018) proposed “some 3,500 homes for the Garden Village” (p.10).
3. At some point, by 2019 Bailrigg Garden Village had morphed into the “Lancaster South Area Action Plan” and the number of new homes varied between 3,500 and 5,000. (Sadly the link to the City Council’s website is broken.)
4. The proposed modified version of the Local Plan of August 2019 talks of “at least 3,500 new homes” (section 12.5, page 50).
5. March 2020: the government awards Lancashire County Council £140 million for the “South Lancaster Growth Catalyst” – “which will unlock up to 9,185 homes“.

Naturally Dynamo is now looking forward to seeing how the cycle superhighway in South Lancaster develops.  (Obviously not all the £140 million will be spent on that!  There is to be a new motorway junction after all.)

But . . . how many new houses are there to be in South Lancaster: 3,500? 5,000?

Or 9,185?

Update:  we have written to County Councillor Erica Lewis to see if she knows more and have submitted a Freedom of Information request to Lancashire County Council for sight of the HIF bid.