Bellway lodges plans for 133-home Wilmslow neighbourhood
With consultation over and an application submitted, Cheshire East Council will now decide whether the plans to transform the 13-acre ex-Green Belt site on Cumber Lane should proceed.
Bellway Homes’ 133-home Wilmslow scheme would feature 93 units for market sale. The proposed mix would be 12 two-bed, 21 three-bed, 29 four-bed, 22 five-bed, and nine six-bed homes.
The remaining 40 homes would be designated as affordable; 26 would be three-bed affordable rent properties. Nine three-bed and five two-bed properties would be available on intermediate rent.
Car parking for up to 286 vehicles has also been proposed, with most units offering both a driveway and street parking.
Plans for landscaping include the creation of a children’s play area at the heart of the scheme, as well as surrounding active travel improvements and a small greened public realm near the neighbourhood’s access road.
The site was removed from Green Belt and has been identified by the council for housing development in the Local Plan Strategy adopted by Cheshire East Council in 2017. Credit: via planning documents
The site was removed from Green Belt and identified by the council for housing development in the Local Plan adopted by Cheshire East Council in 2017.
Bellway’s site would be accessed from Cumber Lane, where a gateway would welcome residents who would follow a tree-lined avenue from which the rest of the development branches off.
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Astle Planning and Design, with Urban Design Group and planner AshtonHale, designed and compiled the application for the Wilmslow project.
The project team also includes Eddisons, Charles Townsend Engineering, Urban Design Group, Heritage Archaeology, E3P, Rachel Hacking Ecology, Ascerta, and Red Acoustics.
Those interested in the application can use the planning reference number 25/1573/FUL to view it on Cheshire East Council’s planning portal.
Parking for nearly 300 vehicles, more square footage given over to the storage of cars than to housing humans, no amenities to speak of, zero access to public transport and generic, banal design. What a depressing state of affairs.
By Everything Is Fine
I think Everything is Fine needs to check the maths on 286 car parking space being more footage than the other 133 houses. Also how do all the adjoining houses 5 mins walk from wilmslow town centre survive with no amenities (despite the adjacent tennis court)
By Anonymous
This is Shocking no infrastructure thought of what about the strain on doctor’s surgery’s schools ect no amenities near by so everyone will have drive for anything which is just ridiculous. I would disagree with this decision just another money maker for fat cats no change there
By Anonymous
Shocking, and the fat cats live there as well; well served by road and rail infrastructure, buoyant town centre and lots of amenities. They musy be apoplectic, how dare this volume plc housebuilder make an application in their green and pleasant land
By Anonymous
I always say to anyone who doesn’t want houses in their backyard. Where else in your town do you want them? To say no houses to be built full stop ever again is just unrealistic. Wilmslow has 30,000 residents so adding 133 houses will happen somewhere
By Tomo
No
By Anonymous