Planning permission has been granted to repair and rebuild part of a former chapel on Wilmslow Road, Handforth to create seven apartments.
The scheme will convert The White House, a Grade II listed building which previously contained two houses, a Methodist Chapel and a Sunday School, into seven luxury apartments aimed at young professionals.
More recently, the vacant property was used as staff accommodation for employees of the adjacent hotel.
Many features of the listed building will be retained, such as the original lancets, original label mouldings, the 16 pane window in the main chapel and the semi circular headed lights.
The scheme includes 5 two bedroom apartments, a property with one bedroom and a three bedroom apartment located in the main chapel with double height living space and exposed roof beams. These apartments would take up the entire existing footprint of the building with an extension to the rear. The proposal also includes the removal of 17 protected trees.
The plans for The White House at 180-186 Wilmslow Road, Handforth can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for planning application 14/2478M.
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The refuse site at Poynton displays a recycle %, typically >70%. Yet Cllr Brown's document totally ignores the neccessity to recycle land, such as brown field sites for housing. The government's National Planning Policy Framework expects this, just like turning unused offices into apartments as well. Ask any child at school and at any age they will tell you passionately how important it is to save our planet, including the need to recycle. CEC ignore the next generation of voters at their peril.
So here we are, with CEC having wasted £millions of tax payers hard earned money, attempting to serve developers with green fields and not listening to us us mere locals, whose views and those being taught in schools being ignored.
Yet, small increments of common sense do shine through, such as this one.
Let's hope many more will follow in a fresh plan.
So voters, next May, please don't just shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic..............