Development consortium lines up Crewe resi
A scoping report has been filed on behalf of Waldron’s Place Landowner Group, which is exploring the delivery of 950 homes across 130 acres at Coppenhall Moss, north of the Cheshire town.
The Waldron’s Place site off Groby Road is made up of five parcels of agricultural land.
Planning adviser Iceni Projects said in its Environmental Impact Assessment scoping report that proposals are being worked up seeking an outline consent for up to 950 homes, supported by a mixed-use local centre, land for a primary school, employment space, and open space.
Working with Iceni are firms including Redmore Environmental, Urban Green, Shaw Stephens, E3P, Mode and Reading Agricultural.
WPLG, the applicant, is made up of seven parties. These are Farsorest Developments; Philip Kevin O’Reilly and Mike O’Reilly; Michael Griffin and Jacqueline Griffin; Audrey Irene Micklewright; Diane Micklewright; John David Peacock and Janet Maragret Peacock; and Shaun Bullock and Victoria Bullock.
The land:
Parcel 1: bound by Parkers Road, Broughton Road, open space an, to the west, by the west coast mainline railway and Bridge Farm Kennels.
Parcel 2: bound to the north by housing on Warmingham Road and Waldron’s Lane, with Broughton Road and Moss Farm to the west.
Parcel 3: bound to the north and east by Waldon’s Lane.
Parcel 4: bound to the east by Groby Road, the west by Waldron’s Lane and the south by Stoneley Road.
Parcel 5: bound to the south by Groby Farm, and to the east by Sandbach Flashes, a site of special scientific interest.
The village of Coppenhall Moss lies to the north of the site.
The maximum height of buildings on site will be four storeys, the EIA said. The aim is to be on site at some point in 2030, with construction completing in 2035.
The planning reference on Cheshire East Council’s planning portal is 26/1771/EIA.
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It is getting beyond a joke how many houses are being built. 3 new estates in Sydney Road. Money speaks all the time. Absolutely disgusted.
By Anonymous
Goodbye nature. People need open space won’t be long before it will be like living in central Manchester.
By Paul. C
I live on Maplins Moss and had a Great Crested Newt in the garden last month. Worth considering for planning.
By G
At what point does common sense come into play?.
The Groby road,Maw lane ,Elm drive junction is a accident waiting to happen. Adding potentially another thousand vehicles won’t help matters.
Coppenhall moss is named that for a reason which is lots of water, go figure that one out!.
By Anonymous
To increase Crewe’s housing stock may be socially necessary.
To build some houses in the areas indicated clearly, therefore, has some justification.
To completely suffocate and render a part of the town unrecognisable to its existing comunity, is not.
By Alex Carroll
It’s not about “money speaks” – it’s local councillors who have failed to prepare a plan to accommodate the necessary housing numbers. There could easily have been a planned expansion across Cheshire East, but local councillors chose not to make the difficult decisions themselves, and to leave it to the private sector who will choose based on their business model rather than what is best for residents of the local authority. It allows local councillors to shout from the rooftops “look at what the big bad developers are doing to our countryside” and “look what central government has imposed on us via the Planning Inspectorate”, when they are actually wilfully inflicting this on their own constituents. They might not like mandatory housing targets, but that is what the elected government has prescribed and it is their role as local councillors to accommodate the laws and not obfuscate responsibility.
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