Rochdale industrial, resi mix comes forward
Around 350 homes and 250,000 sq ft of employment space are proposed for a 62-acre chunk of land north and east of Stakehill Industrial Estate.
Landowner JP Milne Trust is working with consultancy WSP to draw up plans for a mixed-use scheme on former Green Belt land in Rochdale earmarked for redevelopment under the Places for Everyone joint spatial plan.
The employment element will provide a 25%/75% split between industrial accommodation and storage and distribution facilities.
The residential element will provide a mix of two-, three-, and four-bedroom houses.
JP Milne’s land is located close to Junction 2 of the A627(M).
In all, the Stakehill allocation spans just shy of 500 acres close to Junction 20 of the M62.
JP Milne’s plans fall within the northern part of the allocation. Also within that part of the masterplan is Redrow’s plan for 1,380 homes.
The 231-acre southern swathe would be given over largely to industrial accommodation, with 1.6m sq ft planned as part of the Atom Valley Mayoral Development Zone.
So Rochdale is going to build more on Middleton land. And take all the rateable income, for Rochdale as usual. Why can’t all Middleton rateable income be ring fenced for Middleton
By Jon Coffey
Stakehill is under utilised , so you basically using greenbelt for private housing .. diabolical
By Anonymous
Where are the doctors, dentists and schools for these households? Not to mention the already overstretched road transport system, the existing mains drainage system and the inadequate water supply .
By Andy Scanlon
It doesn’t need industrial units there’s plenty of empty ones on stakehill industrial estate that are empty
By Gary Kiernan
Your building on the last bit of green belt land Middleton/ castleton has left. There has been 1000s of objections to these plans yet you’re still trying to go ahead with it. Rochdale rd/ Manchester rd can’t hold the extra volume of traffic this will cause. We have bats owls beautiful at risk animals in this area that you will be driving away. We don’t have enough services to account for the extra residents like gps, dentists, schools. Even if you extent thornham school this won’t account for high schools and collages. We struggle to get our children in the local schools as it is so how will we with 1300 more households. Please go and build your houses down south where they have hundreds of thousands of acres of land. This is our last green space. Our last bit of green belt land. It’s not fair that we buy our houses in an area because we want the little town with the green belt land around for you to take it away to turn our towns into concrete cities.
By Natalie Anderson
Middleton cannot take anymore new builds. No proper infrastructure is put in place. There is plenty of empty units why build more. Take a look at Langley/Hollin the constant water problems they are having. Our roads cannot take anymore traffic and we don’t want bike lanes it killed Castleton. Who would want to live on an industrial estate.
By Sandra Matthews
What’s happening to the lakes, there are native British crayfish in there?
By Kenneth Freer
Shocking, we need to keep our green spaces. How can land be former greenbelt? Middleton is full to bursting. This destruction of our openspaces needs to stop.
By Stephen Done
There are already PLENTY of unused and vacant large industrial units from the recent building developments near the Heywood junction – PLEASE STOP taking the land for short term profit – there is already huge chunks of green belt earmarked for development just a few fields away – just stop, look at the percentage of green belt land that has been used recently – until all the brown field sites are gone stop taking land – enough is enough
By Jan Neville
Who actually runs the J P Milne trust?
By Anonymous
Not wanted. Our green spaces are slowly but surely being eroded and our children won’t ever have the idyllic childhood they deserve with fresh air and freedom to play safely away from cars and HGVs. The pollution will be excessive as will the noise. I recently moved to the area hoping for my final days to be peaceful and quiet and somewhere my family can visit me. The roads close by are clogged already and another 500 cars on Stakehill lane and Bentley avenue plus HGVs that take a wrong turn will create so much noise, pollution and road damage. Please rethink this horrendous proposal.
By Paulette Varnom