Plans have been submitted to demolish a detached house and replace it with a development of 7 homes off Wilmslow Park Road.
The proposed scheme is for 2 pairs of semi-detached and 3 detached properties on a 0.462 ha site which is currently occupied by a large single dwelling.
The seven properties will have 5 bedrooms with 2 private parking spaces each and private gardens. The accommodation is 2 1⁄2 storey as it utilises the roof space for some bedrooms.
To date letters of objection have been received from 9 neighbours who have raised concerns regarding overdevelopment of the plot, the impact on local wildlife, insufficient parking, increased traffic, the proposed access is close to a blind bend and the proposal is out of character with other properties on Wilmslow Park North as they are over 2 storeys high and are of a much higher density.
Wilmslow Town Council's Planning Committee will be discussing this application at their meeting on Monday, 10th July starting at 7.30pm in Wilmslow Parish Hall.
The plans can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for planning reference 17/3115M. The last date for submitting comments is 26th July and a decision is expected by 15th August.
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with a higher density of development than exists in Wilmslow Park and it is a statement totally irrelevant to this application. We have various references to "Arts and Crafts Style" incorporated into the proposed plans, and yet the plans appear to be the same as virtually every new build apart from there not being any garages. It tells us at one point that the front trees are to be maintained - but diagrams clearly shows that trees are to be removed in order to have two lane traffic into this development. It tells us that the embankment is to remain but elsewhere it refers to making it "level access" - which would mean digging out the hillside to make it flat.
Let's be clear about the context of this site. It lies off a narrow private road which has restricted access at one end because of presumably the weakness of the bridge. It has large detached houses with not a semi detached house in sight and yet the front houses are planned to be semis. All I can say is that if planning permission is given for this then people living in the semis had better get used to the smell of the Longhorn, because they will be considerably closer to them than existing residents on that stretch of the road.
Let's hope our responsible and visionary planners see through this and protect our neighbourhood from more of these attacks to suck out money from every square metre of this endangered and special place where we live.
Seven houses 12 + cars
MADNESS !
Decent housing stock at a reasonable price is what is needed. The comments regarding the extra traffic is a non starter. Bit of a joke....annoying at best.... mildly hypocritical unless of course you don't own a car. Or even car share with your immediate family. Probably not. Maybe 3 or 4 cars on the drive?
Try living on a busy road....I very much doubt a few extra cars will have much impact on this idyllic..overpriced.....oversized....excessive... expensive housing micro market. You might hear a few extra cars as the local residents mow their 0.4ha gardens.
What in Wilmslow Park !
A - one would suggest that a number of semi detached houses would be more favorably priced than 1 large house on a 0.4ha site.
However as with all gravy trains the end of the track is in sight. Property prices are set to plummet, sales will not complete, many of the houses in the planning pipe line will never be built.
This area is used by locals for walking/jogging as well as by many children walking up to the High School. It is also used for school field trips to study both the geology and ecology of the area. The road is narrow, the footpath is narrow. On recycling day there will be 14 bins in a row completely blocking the footpath.
Usual stuff....traffic...bins....cars.....walking.
Isn't Ryan Dance the guy that thought the Rifleman pub site on residential Moor Lane wasn't suitable for housing.
Odd comment that ?
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