MCI lodges plans for 162 Rochdale homes
An 11.5-acre site off Trub Road is earmarked for redevelopment into a mix of houses and apartments.
MCI Developments has submitted an application to Rochdale Council for 162 affordable homes – a mix of affordable rent and shared ownership – that will be managed by a registered provider.
The development, south of Castleton, would feature 24 one-bed apartments, 78 homes with two bedrooms, 48 with three bedrooms, and 12 with four bedrooms.
Pegasus is advising MCI on planning matters. To learn more about the project, search for reference number 24/01007/FUL on Rochdale’s planning portal.
The site is hemmed in by the Rochdale Canal to the east, the Trub Brook and M62 to the south, and the mainline railway to the west. It has been the subject of residential proposals twice before.
S&E Lomax won approval at appeal in 2011 for a scheme featuring 199 homes and a care home. The same developer returned in 2015 with plans for 167 homes. Neither scheme ever started on site.
This proposal should be refused, they are already building on the Railway sidings. The land is always flooded and has been for years. Castleton doesn’t need cheap houses it already has enough of those. To bring the area up its needs 3/4/5 bedroom executive homes homes from a decent developer and not someone who wants to throw up as many cheap homes as they can.
By Anonymous
@Anonymous at 12:48pm on 5th November
In Castleton:
Countryside is finishing off a site on Royle Road which contains 74 Market sale 3/4 bed houses (not including the 60 3/4 bed houses available for Market rent or any of the 3/4 bed houses available for Shared Ownership).
Hive Homes are finishing a site of 102 3/4 bed houses for Market Sale at Nixon St.
Kellen have just received a consent for 191 Houses, 182 of which are 3/4 bed at the railway sidings.
Barrett/David Wilson have an application in for 445 houses at Cowm Top Lane, 435 of which are 3/4/5 bed.
Redrow have a hybrid application in for an initial 235 houses with a scoping request for up to 1147 houses.
There is a scoping opinion for 350 houses at Stakehill.
I don’t see a scheme for 160 odd affordable properties being an issue as there will be plenty of Market Sale homes coming forward very soon.
By Mis-Manager