Plans for 81 homes on green belt land off Welton Drive

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An outline planning application has been submitted for a development of up to 81 homes on green belt land on the southern edge of Wilmslow, on a site which has not been allocated for development in the Local Plan.

Tesni Homes are proposing to build 57 market homes and 24 affordable homes, which will be distributed throughout the scheme, on a 10.4 acre site in Davenport Green, which is accessed between Welton Drive and Stockton Road. 

The mix of house types proposed at Welton Oaks is 2 one bed units, 12 two bed units, 42 three bed units, 25 four bed units, of which there are 48 detached houses, 31 semi-detached houses and 1 detached unit containing the two one bed homes.

Of the 81 dwellings, a total of 24 units (30%) will be classed as affordable. Each detached and semi-detached dwelling has a private driveway, 53 of which also have garages and there will be 162 parking spaces provided.

The proposed development is to be principally accessed off an extension to Welton Drive.

A letter drop to nearly 300 local residents, stakeholders and councillors was made at the end of February 2014 to explain that it was Tesnihomes (formerly WCE Properties) intention to submit an outline planning application to Cheshire East Council for a housing development. The letter summarised the proposals and directed the recipient to a dedicated website which gives further details and the opportunity to comment on the proposals.

To date there have been 64 consultation responses which included 60 objections. The principle concerns were loss of green belt land, site not allocated within the Local Plan for development, negative impact on the local wildlife and concern about the impact on local amenities, in particular health care and education.

Four comments of support were received stating that the development would address in part the shortage of housing in Wilmslow, retains more green space and has less hard landscaping in contrast to the Adlington Road development, would have minimal impact on Wilmslow losing green belt land, would be a welcome addition to the local housing stock and wouldn't detract from the environment.

Cllr Rod Menlove said "I'm totally opposed to this application for this land that is green belt and part of the open area separating Wilmslow and Alderley Edge.

"When the developers were suggesting this last November I was assured by CE Planning that it would fail the greenbelt test. I will enquire as to what, if anything has changed and am already in contact with local residents.

Cllr Menlove added "The application is scheduled currently to be considered by Strategic Planning on 17 September. Without doubt many residents will wish to comment and I urge them to do so before the cut-off date of 28 August."

The outline planning application can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for reference 14/3338M.

The last date for submitting comments is 28th August and a decision is expected by 9th October.

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Comments

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Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 3:31 pm
Pleased to hear that Councillor Rod Menlove is opposed to the green belt between Wilmslow and Alderley Edge being used. Was he also opposed to the Green Belt being used at Handforth East or the greenfield site at Adlington Road being used?
Vince Chadwick
Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 4:14 pm
What's the point of the Local Plan if planning applications in the green belt simply ignore it? This proposed development, on land in the green belt and not included in the Plan, MUST be stopped or we'll just have a free-for-all for developers to built where they like.

Besides this application's flying in the face of The Plan and the green belt, this site is unsuitable for a number of reasons, not least traffic congestion. The narrow access roads from the site to Knutsford Road (Welton Drive and Stockton Road) were designed to serve the present housing stock and are quite inadequate to support the levels of traffic this development would cause.

Please get your objection in now!
Pete Taylor
Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 4:38 pm
Are we to assume that no notice what so ever is to be taken of the overwhelming result of CECs Wilmslow Vision consultation? This piece of Green Belt was covered in that (seemingly futile) exercise.
Must we all make individual responses to every proposal for Green Belt theft which now comes up? If so, why did CEC spend our money on the "Vision"?
Nick Jones
Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 5:16 pm
On 25/7/ 14 Brandon Lewis (New Govt planning minister...just in case you've never heard of him... ) said NIMBYISM was on the way out ...............and there was a dramatic swing in public opinion with over 50% of people in favour of new housing in their area......BECAUSE GOVT REFORMS introduce sustainable development and and PEOPLE NOW HAVE A GREATER SAY ?????????

Really ??? Get on the same page as your voting public Mr Lewis...!!!

PEOPLE may say and present meaningful carefully considered opinion ... but quite clearly .. NO ONE IS LISTENING !!!

Its as if CEC has selectively heard what it wants to, and declared independence in line with the Orwellian Dictat from the new planning minister

Disgraceful
Terry Roeves
Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 8:08 pm
A builder from Mold in Wales, 39m distant has chosen Wilmslow to apply for planning permission on our green fields.
A business model that relies on making money abusing the agreed boundaries of a town or village is immoral. No board of directors should use shareholder investment in this manner. They are wholly misguided and this appication must fail.
All of us should submit objections and there are plenty of them. However CEC planning board have let us down before. They don't live around here. You can't help feeling IMO that they are NIMBYs and North Cheshire is their dumping ground for housing estates. Our local Councillors, WTC etc count for nothing sadly. No localism and no respect for our elected representatives.
Richard Minton
Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 8:25 pm
Change the empty office blocks into "affordable" and 'unaffordable' housing
there are enough of them. Leave the Green belt green, the clue is in the name !!!

Put in an objection , and use Wilmslow R.A.I.D [residents against inappropriate development] Facebook page as a Village Hall meeting room, to share comments
ideas etc.

Contact too Residents of Wilmslow [RoW] these chaps have worked their socks off.
contact Manuel Golding on 07930 377778 or Stuart Kinsey 07973 529739 I got these contacts from an earlier document so hope they are still valid
Simon Worthington
Wednesday 30th July 2014 at 8:26 am
Just give up and plan your move. This area is finished and will become like Hazel grove and Cheadle Hulme in five years.
Vince Chadwick
Wednesday 30th July 2014 at 10:10 am
To object go to the 'Cheshire East Website' link in the article above, or directly to:

http://planning.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ApplicationSearch.aspx

Ensure the search is set for 'Planning Reference'.

Insert: 14/3338M in the 'Search Criteria' box.

Select View Results as: 'List'

When the planning details page for this proposal come up, fill in all the required fields. Remember especially to ensure you click on the 'object' option when the forms asks what you wish to do: beware the form automatically defaults to 'Approve'!

Press the submit button. If the form does not submit, check you have filled in all the required fields correctly (post codes, for instance, must not contain spaces).
Mark Goldsmith
Wednesday 30th July 2014 at 7:50 pm
All we need now is Clr Jones saying this will never happen and you'll be able to move into these houses for next Christmas.
John Hanna
Saturday 2nd August 2014 at 8:28 pm
This could be the test case for all applications on green belt land throughout the country. This particular piece of land is supposed to be one of the highest grades of green belt. If this application is approved, it will set a precedent. Would it not be better for developers, to consider building affordable housing, such as apartments, near town centres, helping to regenerate the high street shops. I implore people to object to this application most strongly.
Pete Taylor
Sunday 3rd August 2014 at 7:42 pm
People of Wilmslow, if you feel this attack on the Green Belt is wrong, please register your opposition. Every objection counts.

Curiously five occupants of a single residence on the other side of Wilmslow have made supporting comments to the Planning Application. I cannot image why.

We know, from the several consultation exercises, that the vast majority of residents from Wilmslow and Alderley are opposed to the loss of any Green Belt land which separates the two communities. This section of farmland is especially important as it adjoins the wildlife haven along Butterfly Bank.

Please register your opposition on the CEC website Planning Applications page, paste in 14/3338M to the planning reference box.
Andrew Pickering
Tuesday 5th August 2014 at 11:04 am
Would be very surprised to see this get planning permission. Despite the conjecture Green Belt land remains protected under planning control and there is extensive case law to show that the Government will not support applications for housing development on Green Belt land. Developers are best advised to take a long term 'promotional' approach with a view to having the Local Authority removing the land from the Green Belt through its Local Plan making process.

Cheshire East has opened itself up to challenge elsewhere by not bringing forward a Local Plan but this site, in our opinion will remain as Green Belt for the foreseeable.
Peter Croome
Tuesday 5th August 2014 at 1:57 pm
Having only moved to Welton Drive last Sept. we anticipated a peaceful retirement in a quiet cul-de-sac, however, this application for "Welton Oaks" has obviously not been thought out. Apart from the fact that OUR Green Belt is supposed to be protected, there is absolutely no way that our road can contain an extra 81 [if every new occupier only has one car] vehicles.
It would appear that only the objections of everyone affected can stop this travesty.
Lisa Reeves
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 at 2:48 pm
This planning application is on the agenda for the Northern Planning Committee's meeting which will take place on Wednesday 1st October, starting at 1pm at Macclesfield Library.
Jane Mitchell
Tuesday 23rd September 2014 at 4:17 pm
As usual money is the only agenda taking centre stage. What is a firm from Wales doing concreting over our GREENBELT , oh yes that will be for money.
I strongly suggest Tesnihomes concrete closer to their home and leave our GREENBELT alone.
What's more I think you find there are far more than 60 objections.
Lisa Reeves
Wednesday 1st October 2014 at 11:28 am
This planning application was scheduled to be discussed at today's Northern Planning Committee (October 1st) but it has been withdrawn.