Plans in for 1,004 Stockport homes
Two plots in Woodford have been courted by both Russell LDP, which plans a 554-home scheme, and David Wilson Homes, which has launched a public consultation on its 450-home proposal.
Woodford Garden Neighbourhood
Russell LDP wants to build 554 homes across 74 acres on Green Belt land south of Chester Road.
The Woodford Garden Neighbourhood could host up to 395 standard homes, 15 self-build homes, a 72-bed care home, and 72 extra care apartments.
According to planner Stantec, 50% of the properties will be affordable, with their mix and type yet to be defined.
Residents would have access to amenities including a 3,800 sq ft GP or dental practice, a 7,500 sq ft children’s day nursery, a 1,600 sq ft retail space, allotments, and two play areas.
A 15-acre ‘nature park’ complete with a footpath network between grass meadows and ponds is also proposed.
It is anticipated that the scheme will be fully open and in use by 2033, should construction start as planned in 2026.
Gary Lynch, planning director at Russell LDP, said: “We want to thank those who attended our consultation events in Woodford in July. Since then, we’ve taken on board the feedback received and sought to revise our proposals to reflect the needs expressed by the community.
“The updated plans now include provision for healthcare, a day nursery, and a small retail unit that could be suitable for a post office, alongside refinements to the housing layout.”
Lynch continued: “Our proposals directly respond to the acute need across Stockport for specialist elderly care accommodation and general housing, in a comprehensive and sustainable way; and the illustrative masterplan is based on a landscape-led approach, which provides the public with greater access to quality open spaces.”
Stantec, Asteer Planning and Design, Eddisons, Font Comms, E3P, Collington Winter Environmental, Turley, Orion, Redmore Environmental, Carterwood, Townsend Water Engineering, and Anderson Goddard have all contributed to the application.
To view the application, use the planning reference number DC/096927 on Stockport Council’s planning portal.
Access to the site would be off Poynton Bypass. Credit: via consultation documents
Upper Swineseye Farm
David Wilson Homes, part of Barratt Redrow, has proposed 450 homes on a 51-acre plot at Upper Swineseye Farm in Woodford, which sits to the east of Woodford Garden Village.
At least 50% of the proposed two-, three-, and four-bed homes will be affordable and include social rent offers.
In addition to the properties, improvements to local walking and cycling routes, publicly accessible green spaces, and a multi-use games area have been put forward by the housebuilder.
Savills and Urban Design Studio are working on the scheme’s plans.
Access to the site is proposed from Roy Chadwick Way.
Andrew Taylor, planning director for David Wilson Homes North West, said: “We are dedicated to delivering a development that reflects the needs of the local community, with strong emphasis on affordable housing, infrastructure improvement, and enhanced access to green space.
“The site benefits from excellent connectivity, with nearby public transport links, retail options, community amenities, and employment hubs.
“We view this scheme as an opportunity to create a place that is inclusive, practical, and thoughtfully designed for contemporary living.”
A pre-application consultation has begun and will run to 13 October before an application is submitted to Stockport Council.
You can view the consultation here.
Woodford would benefit so much from a spur extension of the train line before it reaches Poynton.
By Philip
Did David Wilson Homes, in drawing up their plans accessed solely off a bypass, miss the bit of the NPPF which talks about significant development being focused on locations which are or can be made sustainable, through limiting the need to travel and offering a genuine choice of transport modes? I’d love to know how they’re going to make the nearest station (over a mile) closer, or the less than once an hour (and not evenings or Sundays) nearest bus service, from a stop over half a mile away, closer and more frequent? Perhaps their application will seek to redefine the meaning of the word “genuine”.
Also, whilst trying to redefine reality, let’s generously assume that 30% of their site is required for things like roads rather than actual houses – that gives you a whopping 32 dwellings per hectare. Did they also miss the entire chapter of the NPPF which requires the effective use of land?
By Anonymous
Stockport Liberal and Conservatives vote to leave Places for Everyone (PfE) in 2021, then don’t get a Local Plan in place quickly enough, and a new Labour Government is then gets elected in 2024 with an ambition to “build, baby build”.
Result: a cascade of planning applications in the green belt, the very areas the Liberal administration did not want development and now will be very difficult to resist from being developed. Some difficult decisions to be made and some difficult explanations to the electors of Stockport as PfE and / or a new Local Plan would have prevented this onslaught of greenbelt planning applications.
By Anonymous
How about you build and complete all the new amenities, such as schools and doctors surgeries, put new transport facilities in and improve all the local road network BEFORE you are allowed to build any profit making houses?
By Anonymous
Absolutely awful plan. For a start it’s valuable green belt land and there isn’t much left in woodford. The road infrastructure will not cope. It will completely destroy the identity of woodford
And as someone who knows and used to farm that land it is a floating water plain
Unworkable in winter poorly drained prone to flooding which will be exacerbated by concreting it
By Anonymous
What’s happened to Green belt restrictions?
By Anthony Nield
Due to Stockport Lib Dems pulling out of the places for everyone framework the borough must have the most development vulnerable greenbelt in the North West.
By Anonymous
What about all the wild life ? Soon they will have nowhere to go they are being driven out of their own environment
By Anonymous
Thanks Stockport Lib Dems and Conservatives – this one’s on you. Should’ve stayed in Places for Everyone but LD/Con councillors were so bad at their jobs that they needed a grand gesture to make it look like they were doing something. Now generations of future Stopfordians will suffer. Moral of the story – we need to take significant power away from myopic, parochial councillors who struggle to think outside their own term times, and upvolve it to the GMCA – who have the oversight to make longer-term decisions which benefit the whole region.
By Anonymous
8.36am – clearly not in Stockport.
By Anonymous
Spacing looks pretty tight, but it’s better than nothing. Probably needs a better connection through the back tho too. Nimbys be damned.
By Bob
Develop brownfield sites first please before any more greenfield building, once gone, gone forever.
By Anonymous
18.5 dwellings per hectare?
By Anonymous
Looks amazing, I’m all for it.
By Paula Shortall
Stockport council had better build another new high school and primary school to manage the increase in population to the area. Woodford used to feel like a green space, a retreat from busy suburbs like Cheadle hulme or Bramhall now it falls prey to the same fate as all the others. Shocking legacy to leave our children when we can’t even save Greenbelt land Shocking! Watch our Bramhall Park and others they are coming to get you next!
By Anonymous
Midday and just queued in traffic for 20 minutes to get through Bramhall Village and they want to put another 2000 cars on the areas roads, meanwhile 56 brownfield sites in Stockport remain undeveloped
By Mr best decision ever
Please do not call us Nimbys , when we moved to woodford there was 450 houses, most of us accepted the BAE site development as it was a brownfield site , they have added another 950 homes to woodford. We now have another two developments to add a further 1000 homes , but it doesn’t stop there. There are plans being submitted for housing behind Moor lane and Jenny lane for a further 220 houses . Why all in Woodford ? What about the rest of Stockport . Surely enough is enough .Not forgetting the smaller development, the old golf course, kennels on blossoms lane thats another 20 plus houses . So woodford is going from 450 houses to nearly 3000 . We aren’t Nimbys , its just to much
By Anonymous
It’s time stockport demanded a new high school for all these new residents. How are they going to get to wilmslow high, poyton high or CHHS – which are already over subscribed??
Additionally, when was the bypass opened up for use? Redrow were told NO when they asked for access? The whole road will soon be snarled up with traffic lights or roundabout because you can bet if this is passed there will be others very soon – Lockstock hall farm for example
By Anonymous
Great, more rabbit warren, car dominated rubbish. Why do we produce such poor quality housing in the UK. This could be so so so much better.
By Dan
Such a densely populated development only works with good access and decent public transport which this proposal lacks. Stockport Council needs to do what they are paid for, reject all outline proposals for Woodford and Bramhall until they have updated the Borough Development Plan and come up with a senseable plan for roads and infrastructure to meet resident needs before any further housing is approved
By Anonymous
What are the exceptional circumstances that stockport council believes greenbelt becomes grey. Do we no longer care about about wild geese and birds that nest in these
fields? Outline plans for development on any further greenbelt should be rejected to prevent urban sprawl and complete gridlock
on the roads around woodford.
By Woodford resident