Plans have been submitted for the erection of a new car dealership with a showroom, workshops, car display areas and car parking on land at Coppice Way in Handforth.
The modern car showroom will be occupied by Halliwell Jones, who have been searching for a new site for several years to replace their existing sites in the Wilmslow and Handforth area which are considered no longer fit for purpose.
The project will see the development of a vacant site, adjacent to Handforth Dean retail park, in order to provide a joint BMW & MINI dealership, including servicing and MOT testing within a purpose-built facility.
Adjacent to Wilmslow's Handforth Dean retail park, the 2.43 hectares site is bounded by Lower Meadow Road to the north and Coppice Way to the east.
The scheme comprises of two buildings, the primary building will house a BMW showroom and a MINI showroom - connected by a shared atrium, a body shop, workshop and an after sales facility. The second subsidiary building will provide a used car sales facility, with its own customer parking and road access.
A large proportion of the site will be set aside for parking, providing a total of 483 space for the external display of cars along with parking for customers, demonstrator vehicles and service parking.
This will enable Halliwell Jones to consolidate their sales, servicing and repair activities, which are currently split across three local sites.
The BMW showroom and servicing facilities will be relocated from the existing showroom and servicing workshop located the corner of Manchester Road and Dean Row Road, whilst the Mini showroom and servicing workshop will be relocated from the existing site at Summerfield Village Centre and the existing bodyshop will be moved from the Brooke Park employment area off Lower Meadow Road. Existing staff at these locations will be transferred to the new site.
The proposed development will secure 133 existing jobs and create approximately 36 new permanent jobs.
The plans can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for planning reference 17/6486M. The last date for submitting comments is February 8th and a decision is expected by 3rd April 2018.
Comments
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You know, the one that would make a great site for a new Lidl?
Doh
Does anybody know with certainty what's being planned for the existing BMW : Mini sites on Summerfields Village & at the Blue Bell crossroads?
It's reassuring to read that this proposed development will actually create extra jobs.
It will not result in a net overall reduction of jobs or for that matter, the loss of a valuable and popular community leisure and recreational facility . . .
Regards,
Martin
Having seen how close the existing Bluebell workshop is to neighbouring homes, I would guess that anything other than say, an inappropriately huge superstore, would be welcome outside resident's windows.
What do you think ?
Martin
For BMW Coppice Way overall it seems about right.
* A net increase in jobs.
* No loss of of say a valuable community leisure and recreational facility for the sake
of the development.
* Potential to improve residential amenities for the neighboring Bluebell homes.
Nothing has been published yet that the Colshaw : Summerfields residents are aware of.
But like all these developments of late, we imagine that somebody knows something somewhere.
Whatever it is, let's all hope that it is something that the entire community might benefit from.
Something health centre-ish would be good, what do you think ?
Dentist, Doctors, Podiatrists, something to encourage healthy life styles and keeping fit ?
All the best,
Martin