Muller seeks Malpas success
The developer has lodged proposals for 93 homes off Chester Road in the south-west Cheshire market town.
Muller Property Group wants to establish an outline consent for the homes from Cheshire West and Chester Council, and is working with a team including Barrie Newcombe Associates and PGLA Landscape Architects to achieve it.
To the north-west of Whitchurch, Malpas sits close to the Shropshire and Wales borders. Currently agricultural land, the 10.4-acre site sits around 750m north of the town centre.
Muller proposes a new access onto Chester Road to the west, while there would be a footway/cycleway connection onto Greenway Lane to the east. For the scheme itself, the firm proposes 45% affordable homes in line with CWAC policy.
The breakdown of the housing at this stage is four one-bed maisonettes, 29 two-bed homes, 49 three-bed homes and 11 four-bed or more homes.
Headquartered in Alsager, Muller works nationally, but is most prolific on its Cheshire home patch. Current projects include a 411-home second phase at Maylands Park near Nantwich, a 500-home masterplan for Crewe’s northern gateway, and a 127-home project to the west of Audlem.
Want to know more? Scheme documents can be found on CWAC’s planning portal, reference 26/00663/OUT.
A place I know well and a logical extension, but CWAC need to use it to finally remove parking from the high street
By Rich X
Too many of our lovely Cheshire villages are being ruined by greedy builders who only think of profits and not the impact of their greedy schemes. Try living here first.
By Anonymous
It makes me feel so sick to see even more of our beautiful green country being threatened by our ever increasing concrete urban landscapes. These building companies have very little respect for the non human species, the wild animals who need this countryside in order to survive. Building companies like Muller, while talking about delivering affordable housing, and supposedly addressing the shortage in houses, conveniently ignore the serious problems that man made increased urbanisation will cause; even more traffic congestion, air pollution, more and more sewage waste which will.be dumped into our seas and rivers, and nor to mention more social problems. Now more than ever we need this open countryside and green belt countryside as a release from serious stress and other mental health issues.
By Peter Ahern
I wonder whether Cheshire NIMBYs hate their own houses as much as they hate other people’s? It must be very distressing. Of course it’s only a concrete urban landscape when it’s not *your* house.
By Sten
A current developed (partially) housing estate next to this proposed development is still not yet completed since it was started 10yrs plus ago,so one would hope that CWAC could see to the site developed by BOVIS should be completed before consenting to another developer cashing in!!!!!!
10 yrs and still waiting for roads and pavements to be completed!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the council could come and ride around the estate in a wheelchair and prove to us all that it is not fit for purpose……
By Anonymous
Local amenities can’t cope with the current population in Malpas let alone another 93 houses. Getting up and down the high street, Church Street and Wrexham road by the sports club is a complete joke as is outside Bishop Heber at the beginning and end of the school day. Until the road system around Malpas is improved drastically there shouldn’t be any further development allowed.
By Anonymous
No doubt will have a whinge to the un elected, unaccountable and unacceptable Planning Inspectorate when turned down by the democratically elected council.
By Anon
For people in this thread that are uncomfortable with more new housing in Malpas (and there’s been a lot) perhaps don’t reflect on why Malpas is getting built out. Chester is completely enclosed by greenbelt as is much of the north of the county (and the Wirral), and it’s one of the reasons why Wrexham ends up taking a lot of housing. When Chester does release pockets (like on Wrexham Road across from the business park) it gets developed in a heartbeat, and that housing gets a proper bus service, a cycle lane network, a choice of schools, a junction on the A55, and direct access to a major employment cluster. CWAC needs to use it’s next plan to build out Chester and places on the rail corridors to Manchester and Liverpool. Malpas itself will always pick up some housing as it’s the only secondary school location in South West Cheshire and just off the A41, but it needs to fix it’s high street bottleneck.
By Rich X