Muller looks to deliver long-awaited Sandbach project
The developer’s latest proposal for land south of Old Mill Road features 84 homes, recommended for approval by Cheshire East officers.
Muller has an extant consent for the site, which has been subject to a number of differing proposals in recent years.
Although more than 100 objections have been lodged, officers recommended that outline approval be given for 84 homes across two plots.
Access will come from a new spine road and remodelled five-arm roundabout off Old Mill Road, this infrastructure having been approved and work started already.
Muller’s intended site amounts to around 7.9 acres east of the A534 and west of residential properties fronting Palmer Road, Condliffe Close and Laurel Close.
The developer is working with architect Bower Mattin.
Planning history
In August 2022, permission was refused for up to 160 homes, with Muller appealing and winning in April 2024.
Prior to that, an application for 57 homes, a filling station and convenience retail was refused in February 2020.
This had followed an application for 85 homes and a care home, refused in December 2019, but allowed at appeal in October 2020.
Before that, Muller had submitted two applications that were variations on a theme, with a foodstore, around 85 homes, a filling station and pod/drive-thru retail. Plans were refused in 2019, with a reworked version rejected later the same year, also being dismissed at appeal in 2020.
In this latest application, Muller proposes a housing mix of seven one-bedroom homes, 26 two-bedroom homes, 38 three-bedroom homes, 11 four-bedroom homes and two five-bedroom homes.
Twenty six homes will be affordable, a mix of intermediate tenure and social rent.
Cheshire East Council’s strategic planning board will consider the application at its meeting on Wednesday 24 July. The Muller plans can be viewed on CEC’s planning portal with the reference 23/4600C.
Must be burning some cash with all these applications! That roundabout and general area is already a nightmare at peak times, dread to think what it’ll be like with this extra traffic.
By Abots
Interesting geometry on that left turn out of the estate.
By Gum
I would have to question how the development would impact on Carbon Dioxide levels. The last time that this was completed in Elworth the levels were so high that the middle which road development should never have been built. The government can be stopped if the development increases risk to health
By Sandbach Resident
Here’s sandbach’s latest accident blackspot just waiting to happen! Also going to turn the 1 hour it normally takes to get out of sandbach into 90 mins / 2 hours not including the extra approx 160 cars that it will add to the area!!!
By Anonymous
I wonder how much impact this will have on the existing wastewater infrastructure and the three storm overflows in this area that have already polluted the brook/river?
By Drew