Planning permission for Chapel Lane apartments approved

by Lisa Reeves

Saturday 3^rd September 2016

Sat 3^rd Sep 2016

Plans to demolish two houses on Chapel Lane and erect a block of apartments.

Leigh based Eventus Properties Limited have been granted planning permission to replace 20 & 18a Chapel Lane, two-storey houses located on the corner of Chapel Lane, Bedells Lane and Hawthorn Street, with a three-storey building containing 12 apartments.

However, Wilmslow Town Council's Planning Committee recommend refusal of this application on the grounds of its detrimental impact on the streetscene and overdevelopment of the site adversely impacting on neighbouring properties. The owners of whom also objected to the proposals on the grounds of loss of privacy and light as well as an increase in noise and pollution.

The scheme includes 10 two-bedroom apartments and 2 three-bedroom apartments along with 24 car parking spaces. It will be accessed via the existing driveways to number 18a and 20 respectively in a one-way manner.

The planning application can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for planning reference 15/5668M.

Tags:: Chapel Lane

Comments

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Dave Cash

Sunday 4^th September 2016 at 2:15 am

Another example of CEC Northern Planning Committee over-riding WTC's considered recommendation - again.

Terry Roeves

Sunday 4^th September 2016 at 9:18 am

WTC recommendations continue to be over ridden. Furthermore, this net gain of 10 dwellings will not be counted towards the Local Plan housing allocation of 900 (Agreed with CE Leader at 400 and his word now means nothing).
It's an unplanned windfall. Despite national government stating in the National Planning Policy Framework that both windfalls and brown field sites should be counted, Cheshire East are not. Driven by developers who bought our green fields years ago, want their profits, despite the fields being unneeded, other than for commuters into Manchester, again not in the NPPF, unless the need is agreed, eg GMC asks CE for 2,000 houses, because they cannot build them. Ridiculous.
We don't matter, WTC doesn't matter and mostly neither do our CE Councillors.
If my views are flawed, I'm sure a CE Cllr will put me straight. We shall see......

Monday 5^th September 2016 at 2:35 am

Presumably the 14 homes, earmarked for the Ned Yates development will also not count as it is a brownfield site in the green belt, and nothing to do with s108 and other 'sweeteners' required by CEC?

Chris Neill

Monday 5^th September 2016 at 7:10 pm

Great news! Now, along with all the new apartments based on the beautiful bullring design behind the embattled health centre, and more new houses at the other end of Chapel Lane at Ned Yates, we can finally make our unique and very precious Chapel Lane into a car park.
Is the CEC, based in Brussels ?

Barry Stafford

Thursday 8^th September 2016 at 8:37 am

This corner of Chapel Lane is already a traffic nightmare!!
I assume the flats will have a number of cars and service vans etc. It is essential,that cars leaving this new site are directed to turn left down Chapel lane to Alderley Rd. Its bad enough the idiots who come out of the Health Centre onto Chapel Lane and go the wrong way,onto a one way system. There has been several accidents here with the traffic going to fast. I do hope the pedestrian crossing on this junction will be regraded ,repainted and more signs installed.Baz