Land off Stanley Road Great Places and Clowes p planning

Cartwright & Gross designed the project for Great Places and Clowes Developments. Credit: via BECG

Great Places, Clowes lodge £26m Stockport resi

More than 150 homes, including 112 affordable ones, would be built on Green Belt situated north of Stanley Road in Heald Green.

Housing association Great Places and Clowes Developments have partnered up for the project, which would offer future residents a mix of bungalows, houses, and apartments. Planning consultant Savills has submitted the application for the resi scheme to Stockport Council.

The development sits on nearly 11 acres located completely within the Green Belt. While the land has Green Belt status, much of it is brownfield that is being used as a car park for Manchester Airport.

Great Places would deliver the 112 affordable homes, a mixture of one-bed and two-bed flats, alongside two-bed bungalows and houses with between two and four bedrooms.

Clowes would be charged with the development of the open market homes, which would consist of 16 one-bed apartments and 31 two-bed flats.

Under designs by Cartwright & Gross Architects, each house and bungalow would have two parking spaces and the capacity for electric vehicle charging. Those living in the apartments would have one space per flat as well as 16 visitor spaces for parking.

An access road linking the development to Stanley Road would be constructed as part of the project.

There are three public open spaces proposed for the site. Included in the open spaces would be an attenuation pond and a wildflower meadow.

The base build cost for the project is £25.6m, according to a viability statement by chartered surveyor Roger Hannah.

Land off Stanley Road Great Places and Clowes p planning

CGI showing the apartments proposed by Clowes Developments. Credit: via planning documents

The planning application submission follows consultations undertaken in May and June.

Nick Gornall, director of development at Great Places, said his team was grateful for the feedback received from the consultation, adding that it helped form the final application.

Gornall said: “Stockport continues to grow rapidly and there’s a high demand from families in the area looking for local, affordable homes.

“We’re confident our proposals will help provide much-needed affordable homes locally and transform this partially brownfield site into a thriving sustainable new neighbourhood.”

Marc Freeman, development director at Clowes Developments, said: “We believe we have a project that provides sustainable housing whilst making optimal use of the land.”

In addition to Savills and Cartwright & Gross, the project team includes ecology consultant DeltaSimons, landscape architect IBI, and sustainability consultant CHBS. SLR is the consultant for noise, air quality, and transport.

Looking to learn more about the project? Its application reference number is DC/087141 on Stockport Council’s planning portal.

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Thank you Place NW for continuing to share planning app reference numbers in your articles; really useful for those of us looking to delve a bit deeper into what’s being planned.

Looks like all the houses are planned to be heated by ASHP rather than gas boilers which is a positive step – but otherwise it’s another Dursley development of two-car households with little ambition for decarbonisation. Unsurprisingly the steps to “promote walking and cycling” consist of handing out leaflets and redesignating existing pavement as shared use space, and the new entrance from Stanley Road makes zero effort to reinforce cycle and pedestrian priority over cars turning into or out of the development. Pedestrian and bike access to Wilmslow Road is via an alleyway and it’s unclear whether lighting is proposed to make this attractive or safe to use at night.

Business as usual basically. Buy a house in the suburbs, drive to the superstores. Car is king in Stockport.

By W

I thought Stockport Council was supposed to protect the green belt.

By Anonymous

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