A reserved matters planning application has been submitted to Cheshire East Council for a residential development a parcel of land off Meriton Road in Handforth. (between Clay Lane and Sagars Road) in Handforth.
Anwyl Homes has recently acquired the site 8.35 hectare between Clay Lane and Sagars Road and applied for reserved matters approval (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for the erection of 217 dwellings, landscaping, public open space, internal access roads, garages, car parking, and associated infrastructure.
The site was removed from the Green Belt and allocated for residential development of around 250 home in the Cheshire East Local Plan Strategy.
Outline planning permission for the residential development of up to 250 dwellings with 30% affordable was approved in 2018 (ref. 17/3894M) as well as access to the site from Meriton Road / Hampson Crescent following the demolition of 15 Hampson Crescent. All other matters were 'reserved' for future approval.
A separate planning application for the demolition of 15 Hampson Crescent, creation of the site access road, the diversion and culverting of Dobbin Brook and the creation of a temporary construction haul road was submitted to CEC on 5 April 2019 and is currently under consideration (ref. 19/1797M).
The development will comprise of 217 dwellings with associated car parking, garages, private gardens, internal highway network and areas of landscaped public open space. 30% of the dwellings proposed (i.e. 65 dwellings) will be provided as affordable housing.
There will be 19 different house types with a range of one, two, three, four and five bedroom detached, semi-detached houses as well as apartments. The affordable homes are positioned across the site and are provided in the form of both apartments and houses.
The reserved matters planning application can be viewed on Cheshire East Council's planning portal by searching for planning reference 19/2202M.
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But I guess Cheshire East Planning know better !?
When it's gone, it's gone. And they know that there is such apathy that we won't/can't do anything about it.
You say above that Marcia McGrail's home was built on a green field ?
But Guy, isn't where Marcia lives a private matter & not for debate in the public donain ?
Anyway, abandoned green belt issues aside, I think what protestors are saying is that the infrastructure (& particularly Meriton Rd & Handforth Village) isn't going to cope with the extra houses.
And as per, Cheshire East are not listening to reason.
Where Marcia lives is absolutely not for debate in the public domain which is why I didn’t in any way try to start a debate about where Marcia lives in this public domain.
My point on my last comment remains relevant
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What is wrong with our councillors? Why can't they see the shortcomings of carpeting Handforth and Woodford with housing estates?
We already have 2 garden villages of sveral hundred homes within just a couple of miles of eachother. I just don't get it .. why can't they recognise, as we all do, the importance of green spaces for our mental health and wellbeing?
This is not Nimbyism - when it's gone it's gone. In 20 years we'll be back to choked roads and poor services; then what - is this progress? Totally unsustainable and desperately sad.
Obviously it might take some time to turn the mighty ship CEC onto a course steered by the residents, rather than the developers.
Politically it hardly mattered to the then council as Handforth for many years had done the unspeakable and elected independent councillor and so the ruling group had little to worry about in terms of losing seats.
217 houses for this site and 2000 for HGV is a very lot of homes combined with those built on Stanneylands Road and other areas of the adjoining Wilmslow. But the question that I never see answered is who are these homes target at? Are they for residents of our own county or are we seeking to attract people from other areas? This area of north Cheshire is an expensive one to buy homes and I well understand the problems of those who are trying to get their feet on the housing ladder, but are these development addressing this problems, true there will be a very small amount of 'affordable homes' but the vast majority will be well in excess of the £400,000 and outside the first time buyer market. It is true that these new homes may allow those already with homes to trade up and those free some cheaper homes down the line. However my suspicion is that we will see both developments suck in those from across the border, thus relieving the likes of Heald Green, Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall of some of there housing shortage at the expense of our own countryside, is this really what we want?
I saw in the Wilmslow Guardian an article on the new HGV with promises of shops and a bank. Given that Handforth, which I believe used to have 4 banks lost its last remaining one this year I wonder how likely it is the the banks will open a branch? With Handforth Dean Tescos, Boots and M&S on the doorstep how will any new shop in the HGV flourish, the retailers in Handforth already find it difficult to get enough footfall with Handforth Dean on its border.
Whilst Sagar/Clay Lane may be a lost cause, and I hope it isn't, I hope that the new Council will be far more concerned in looking after the Green Belt resources of our community than the previous one which seemed to he hypnotised by the prospect of enticing in more council tax.