Deployment base and care home secure Cheshire East approvals
A replacement police station for Crewe and an 80-bed facility within Muller Group’s Maylands Park masterplan near Nantwich have been given the go-ahead.
Cheshire East Council’s strategic planning board considered the applications at its July meeting, with the care home getting the thumbs-up inside 30 minutes.
The approval for the scheme, off Peter de Stapleigh Way, Stapeley, comes hot on the heels of a double Maylands Park win for Muller at May’s meeting: a 49-home retirement village in partnership with McCarthy Stone, and a 40-home housing scheme with Anwyl Homes.
The care home is the third Maylands Park project to advance this year. Credit: planning documents
A broad outline consent was established for the wider development at appeal in 2020, and although the site sits outside the Nantwich settlement boundary, Cheshire East’s lack of a five-year supply and shortage of senior living places saw the project cleared unanimously.
Approval is thus granted for a three-storey, 80-bed care home, including public open space, access and associated infrastructure, with only landscaping reserved for future approval.
Advisers include planner Asteer, Ecus, Arbtech, Lees Roxburgh Consulting Engineers, and Bower Mattin.
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There was also a green light for a blue light facility: Cheshire Constabulary’s proposals to replace the outdated town centre Crewe police station – 60 years old, and afflicted by asbestos and RAAC – with a new base.
Nine committee members voted in favour of the plans, with two voting against. Debating the proposal took the meeting to the two-hour mark.
The constabulary’s chosen site sits off the A5020 David Whitby Way, within the Basford East residential-led strategic allocation under Cheshire East’s local plan. It amounts to 2.8 acres of previously undeveloped greenfield land.
Officers had spelled out the benefits of the project as providing a more efficient police service for the whole area, with quicker response times possible to most locations.
Corstorphine & Wright is the project architect, Plan Red the planning advisor, with Flinders Chase and Tier Consult also on the project team.
Maylands Park care home reference: 24/4228/OUT
Police deployment base reference: 25/1373/FUL
more doctors. dental surgeries needed and more schools needed too.
By Anonymous
Any other development would not be acceptable but because its submitted by Cheshire Constabulary – they were guaranteed permission. The active travel corridor now severed (as confirmed in Committee Report), no public transport to the site for staff (planning statement says most work 9-5 so could have rerouted existing service at these times), and no guarantee through S106 that a police hub will open in Crewe Town Centre before this relocation. Applications should be applicant blind and decided on planning judgement but this feels rushed and pre-determined
By Anonymous