Green light for North Star apartments
Thirty two affordable flats are to be built on the site of the former North Star pub in Dukinfield.
Tameside Council granted consent for the proposal at its February meeting, with the other significant item, Aldi’s application at the Snipe retail park, deferred.
Applicant SMN Design & Construction, based in Bamber Bridge, intends to deliver 32 apartments on four floors, with undercroft parking. The project is to include 20 one-bedroom apartments and 12 two-bedroom apartments.
Architect Bernard Taylor Partnership has designed the scheme.
The project is billed as 100% affordable, with homes available through a registered provider.
The application site is off Queen Street in the Central Estate, and formerly housed a pub, demolished more than a decade ago. It is mostly surrounded by other blocks of flats, with a church nearby.
Two previous applications, in 2005 and 2007, have won approval at the site.
In the report prepared ahead of the planning committee meeting, planning officers said: “The opportunity to make a positive contribution to housing supply by the redevelopment of a brownfield site is considered to be highly sustainable and this is afforded significant weight in the determination of the application.” Tameside is currently unable to demonstrate a five-year housing supply.
