Plans have been submitted for a new residential development on the site of a former care home in Handforth.
Morris Homes are seeking planning permission for a development of 26 new homes on a 2.6 acre site on Sagars Road, which was previously occupied by Knowle House.
The site lies within the green belt and is currently vacant as the private care home was demolished following an arson attack.
The scheme is for a range of house types including 13 affordable homes and 56 parking spaces.
The 26 dwellings will include 3 two bedroom homes, 2 three bedroom homes and 8 with 4 or more bedrooms.
Additionally there will be 7 social homes consisting of 4 one bedroom dwellings and 3 two bedroom properties along with six 'Intermediate' residential units - half of which will have three bedrooms and half will have two bedrooms.
The plans can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council website by searching for planning reference 20/3562M.
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Here we have a long standing nursing home site being turned over the housing.
Simultaneously, we have, within half a mile, the hotly contested Handforth Road site where two perfectly good houses - situated amongst other residential houses of similar style -are to be demolished to make way for a nursing home. If we go just a little further, we have the proposal to demolish two more perfectly good houses on Manchester Road in Wilmslow to make way for another nursing home.
If the site in Handforth were available, why was there no attempt to direct those who claim to be motivated only by increasing the stock of quality nursing homes to the Sagars Road site? From the illustrative drawing with this article, it looks a much more suitable site.
As the current Conservative Government seek to reduce what limited influence our residents and their elected local representatives have on the Planning process, I fear we will be faced with a flood of ill thought out demolitions / replacements and extensions, both lateral and vertical, which will cause irreparable damage to our communities.
Not sure what you are hinting in your contribution Nick - your last sentence might be saying that putting the foot on the accelerator when going down hill just makes us go down hill even faster! Did you not mean the brake - or were you denigrating Boris Johnson's ability to do what is right by describing his actions in this way? If so, I kind of agree with you that he's turning out to be 'chief Muppet' of all that he surveys and controls and attended to by an array of Muppets going all the way down to the ones we put up with round here.
The problem is there are far too many 100% conservatives in this neck of the woods who wouldn't even admit to THINKING of perhaps, maybe, if all else fails. once in a blue moon, on the off chance of actually voting for any other party come a general election than the Conservatives themselves. Of course this couldn't be ANY reader of Wilmslow.co.uk could it now?
A relatively modern, purpose built residential and respite care facility that was all but 200M (on the doorstep so to speak) from this new proposition - it was closed down by CEC and is currently hanging about (waiting for planning/turnaround in the current business climate) to be turned into, yup, private residential properties!
CEC need money (after all you just can't waste dosh the way they do AND create grand schemes to rake in even more cash in order to keep playing their own version of monopoly); it's all a game of snakes and ladders/smoke and mirrors to them.
"Churchill Retirement Living are seeking planning permission to demolish Cypress House, located on the corner of Wilmslow Road and South Acre Drive in Handforth, and erect a replacement building containing 45 apartments for retirement living along with a guest apartment, communal facilities, access, car parking and landscaping.
The existing building, which was used as a nursing home until 2006 has been unoccupied since."
It's a sorry tale. The whole series of (mainly CEC) decisions - closures, fires, planning for/against nursing/care resources for local needs/requirements ALL (I suggest) balanced against the desire to generate more funds (...for our wonderful unitary organisation) to undertake daft convoluted 'cost saving' schemes, trash the greenbelt (not entirely down to CEC but heavily supported by them against the wishes of the community they are supposed to serve) in addition to the numerous golden handshakes for over remunerated underachievers that, surprise surprise in the final analysis cost the community more and more cash - it's the economics of the mentally unbalanced!
Eventually it was converted in to an unmarried mother home and gained planning for a 40 bed hospital as some one has quoted above before it was demolished.
The council built an estate called knowle park in its grounds.
The problem with the local plan was it looked at large strategic sites and these were passed before all the small brown field infill sites could be put into the equation.
There was no need to allow the whole site at the bottom meriton road to be developed,
surely saving our green fields that are farmed and worked is more important than rough building site that is unless for any other than development.
It is clearly previously developed land with drive way, power, sewer system and the remains of the old building