Partners combine for 350 affordable homes in Stockport
Developer Stonebond Properties, registered provider Great Places, and landowner Stockport County are working together on a two-phase plan to redevelop nine acres of former playing fields off Grove Lane in Cheadle Hulme.
The vision for the site, a mix of brownfield and greenfield land, is for 150 homes to come forward on the former Hulme Hall Playing Fields and an additional 200 to be developed on the southern section of the site adjacent to the A555.
Stonebond and Great Places signed an open-ended agreement in 2023 to deliver 600 affordable homes together. They are now working up planning applications for each of the two phases alongside Stockport County Educational Partnership, which owns the land in question.
The 350-home development would feature a mix of detached, semi-detached, and mews properties of two, to four-bedrooms. All of them will be available on affordable tenures.
Mark Russell, managing director of Stonebond Properties, said: “This development seeks to provide hundreds of affordable homes for the Stockport community, while ensuring that our younger generation has access to some of the best sporting education and community activities possible through SCEP initiatives.
“The site is sustainably located near existing services and amenities, and we are ensuring that measures are incorporated into the development to respond to the climate crisis, whilst also delivering on the Government’s ambition to build more homes.”
E*Scape is advising the applicants on the proposals alongside Asteer Planning and Curtins.
There will be literally no green spaces left in Stockport. Steadily, green spaces are being chipped away at. Moving South from Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Woodford etc. Such a shame and political policies of the last c20 years is the primary reason so many new homes are required.
By mark holroyd
350 affordable homes – wow. Well done County for not cashing in.
By Anonymous
Would be nice to external window shutters become standard on these generic design houses being built everywhere.
They make the flat blank space between windows look better while offering protection against hot temperatures which is becoming increasingly important in the UK.
By Anonymous
More green spaces lost
By Anonymous
What about building bungalows so we older people can downsize which would allow families to move into bigger properties. Bungalows are in such short supply in Stockport.
By Retired
Another traffic nightmare in the making as well as another loss of green space.
By Anonymous
This ups the total number of new homes being planned to nearly 3,500 within the bramhall woodford and handforth area 4 of them off Grove lane, hall moss lane and the ground around the Total Fitness site.
This land would have been a perfect addition to South Park to ensure that the area retained green space that is safe and accessible for everyone. What on earth are stockport council doing for residents – other than destroying the environment. As a community, we should remember these planning applications when its time for the next local elections.
What about the utilities, road network, doctors, schools etc, can they really cope with this continued assault. Disgraceful.
By Anonymous
This isn’t “growing homes where we need them.” It’s “developers HSBC-ing the land while infrastructure collapses.” They want to build, sell, and move on. Residents get overcrowded schools, traffic nightmares, health service blackouts, and ecological carnage—for what? Profit.
Enough is enough.
By grove Lane resident
Another good site. No invasion of Bruntwood Park. Just a well chosen site near amenities & creating jobs. Keep looking for sites like this instead of Green Belt land as you work in this ‘Heatwave’.
By Evie
More development in this area will add to the traffic queues, take away much needed green space for walking, cause more flooding in the area. Also there is not enough infrastructure, doctors, schools for the amount of people in the area.
By Hayley
Great to see much needed affordable housing being built for future generations.
By Guy
How much is affordable. Because when i see house prices there is no way our lads can afford them. Many mates are in the same position. The government should force sales of buy to lets or multiple owners of several houses left unused who are forcing house price and rents up. I have never seen so many homeless, many who have split up or wages just won’t cover the cost.
By Jo
@evia (July 11, 2025 at 10:25 pm)
It is Green Belt land…
By Anonymous