Local residents have two weeks left to have their say on whether land at Rotherwood Road should be identified for a housing development of 174 homes.
Cheshire East Council is currently developing a new Local Plan, which is an important document that will be the Development Plan for Cheshire East and form the basis of planning decisions until 2030.
Consultations on the Local Plan began two years ago and the Council consulted on the draft Development Strategy in January and February 2013, which will deliver 27,000 new houses and 20,000 new jobs in Cheshire East over the next 20 years.
It proposes their distribution across the Borough on 'Strategic Development Sites', these are large sites that are considered to be very important, in terms of delivering the overall jobs led growth strategy for the Borough.
Now the Council is consulting on 27 additional sites recently proposed by developers and land owners which may be suitable for inclusion.
These include a part brownfield and part greenfield site at Rotherwood Road, which has been submitted by Emery Planning Partnership, on behalf of Herring Properties Limited, for the development of 22 dwellings.
They are proposing to develop this in conjunction with another site at Rotherwood Road, Moor Lane (identified as site 3282 in the SHLAA*) where they are proposing to build 30 dwellings and a site at Ned Yates Garden Centre on Moor Lane (identified as site 3426 in the SHLAA) where they are proposing to build 122 dwellings.
CEC is not proposing the site at this stage – but merely identifying it as a possible option for housing development to ensure that the plan is robust.
Councillor David Brown, Deputy Leader of Cheshire East Council, said: "This does not mean the Council supports the development of these sites. We have reached no view at all on their merits at this stage and we are seeking people's views because they have not featured in any previous stage of the local plan. These sites have been proposed by developers to achieve their business objectives.
"In creating a new plan we need to be sure that we have considered all reasonable alternatives in terms of our strategy and potential development sites. We have to ensure that alternatives are considered and will have to pass sustainability and environmental tests before any are accepted as part of our wider consideration of the Local Plan."
The consultation on the 'Potential Additional Sites Proposed by Developer and Land Interests Consultation Document runs until Thursday 30th May 2013.
Printed versions of the document can be inspected at the library, Macclesfield Town Hall and Westfields in Sandbach.
However, the Council asks that consultation responses are made online wherever possible to save time, paper and money.
Click here to view the document and submit your comments online.
Smaller sites will be identified and consulted upon later in the Local Plan process.
* SHLAA - Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment. This document identifies potential housing sites and assesses whether these sites are developable, how many housing units could be accommodated on them and when they could be delivered. Click here to view the draft version of the SHLAA.
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What Drew fails to say, or perhaps he has fallen for yet another of Cheshire East Council's many attempts at disinformation and misleading the public, is that the combined Rotherwood and Ned Yates Site U (Rotherwood Rd & Moor Lane) is in fact GREEN BELT, that area of greenery designated to protect various towns & settlements from urban sprawl. Not Nimbyism Drew, but good, sound and solid town and country planning!
Cheshire East has again failed to tell us the whole truth of this Site U. It omits, deliberately one must ask, that it is in fact GREEN BELT. However within the Ned Yates portion there is a brownfield area. I have no objection to a small development within this brownfield area but am certainly strongly opposed to any loss of Wilmslow's Green Belt. I will therefore be putting my argument in answer to this latest "consultation" as NO TO ANY BUILD ON GREENBELT but Yes to build within the brownfield area.
Cheshire East has carried on this deception when it refers to Site B "Land North of Beech Road, Alderley Edge". Only part of this site is in Alderley, the rest is in Wilmslow - but the Council does not tell us that. It also doesn't tell us that this site, both portions, are in GREEN BELT, designed to stop urban sprawl joining Alderley to Wilmslow. Furthermore, the owners of this proposed housing development also own the adjoining land in Wilmslow - should they get their wish to build on the land under "consultation" they will see this as their Trojan horse to push for further development of their remaining Green Belt land. Precedent - would that be the right word?
No Drew, I am not a Nimby or any other derogatory name you may wish to use. I do believe we need more dwellings within Wilmslow but not in the Green Belt. They must must be considered and constructive developments on brownfield sites.
Just because housebuilding has gone on in a large scale for the last 40 (100?) or so years does not mean it has to continue. There are few, if any plans to expand facilities for the existing residents, especially in building a new high school as our present one is packed to the gills with around 50% more pupils than it was ever intended for. In fact have we already forgotten the duplicitous attempts to "move" the leisure centre and library so that income producing developments could take place?
The suburban sprawl that is Summerfields, the newish estate to the east of the bypass, and the various attempts at social housing in and south of Handforth have resulted in a huge increase in the housing stock.
Like the rest of the country - WE ARE FULL.
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