Approval due for 200 Green Belt homes in Macclesfield
Bloor Homes’ plans to build on 40 acres to the north of Prestbury Road are expected to be given consent by Cheshire East Council, subject to a legal agreement.
A housing mix of 17 one-, 44 two-, 73 three-, and 66 four-bedroom homes has been proposed.
According to planning consultant Turley, 110 of the properties would be offered at market rate, while the remaining 90 would be affordable.
This meets the criteria of the Section 106 obligations tied to the scheme, which stipulate Bloor would be required to provide 45% of the homes as affordable.
In addition, Bloor Homes will be required to contribute almost £1.1m to nearby secondary and SEND schools.
A further £600,000 will be required to go towards public transport provision in the form of bus services.
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According to Turley, the application site, which sits on Green Belt, meets the criteria for grey belt designation.
The statement concluded that development of the plot would “not fundamentally undermine” the purposes of the remaining Green Belt across the plan.
The site lies to the north of Macclesfield Credit: via planning documents
Councillors are expected to follow the recommendation to approve the scheme because of the meeting of legal requirements.
Around £520,000 in additional council tax payments to Cheshire East Council are expected once the development is fully occupied.
Bloor Homes has also ensured that 20.5 acres of the application site, concentrated mainly to the east of the plot, would be reserved for public open space.
The project team behind the application includes TRC, Coopers, NDC, i-Transport, UES, and Aval Consulting Group.
Bloor Homes has other projects underway across Cheshire. In Congleton, the development of Thorsten Fields will provide 154 homes.
Those interested in the application can view it using the planning reference 25/0210/OUT on Cheshire East Council’s planning portal.
When are they expecting to receive consent? the Strategic Planning Board that was scheduled for the 17th has now been cancelled, the application was validated 21 Jan, and the planning portal shows that Turley wrote to the council mid June trying to get them to engage in dialogue. If a major house builder and Turley cant receive a planning service from the LPA how are SME builders supposed to achieve anything?
By Anonymous
Odd to assume the LPA is the problem. Major housebuilders and their consultants are at least as likely to be culpable given their propensity to submit substandard schemes and failure to deal with perfectly reasonable requests in a timely manner. SMEs will achieve things if they can avoid the failures of major housebuilders.
By Disinterested observer
5 per acre?
By Anonymous
Go Ahead..we need more homes..
By Ralph
More greenbelt lost due to housing. They should be building on brownfield sites first
By Salford Born and Bred.
You’ve done well but my site is the same
By John barton