Rochdale mill transformation primed for approval
Redwaters and Prescot Business Park have teamed up to restore the grade two-listed Crimble Mill and deliver 214 homes across the 56-acre Green Belt site near Heywood.
Rochdale Council is set to approve the proposals at its planning and licensing committee on Thursday.
Designed by CJ Partnership and Urban Green, the scheme would restore the former spinning mill to provide 33 apartments, along with 11,700 sq ft of ground-floor commercial space.
The dilapidated buildings next to the mill would also be redeveloped. Approval would see these buildings demolished to make way for a further 31 three- and four-bedroom houses.
Finally, the greenfield plot within the wider site would see the creation of 150 three- to five-bedroom houses.
In total, seven one-, 23 two-, 106 three-, 57 four-, and 21-bedroom homes would be provided.
There would also be improved access to the development, with alterations to the road bridge into the site and upgraded public rights of way.
Plans also include improved access to the Crimble Mill site. Credit: via Urban Green
Crimble Mill closed more than 20 years ago and has been vacant since 2015, the same year that Prescot Business Park acquired the site.
According to an officer’s report, the project demonstrates “very special circumstances” in order to justify Green Belt development, with proposals including the restoration of a grade two-listed heritage asset.
Plans were submitted for the development last July.
Urban Green is working as the landscape architect, arboricultural consultant, and on wider masterplanning for the scheme. CJ Partnership is the masterplanner for the mill complex segment.
Lichfields is the planning consultant. The project team also includes Blackett-Ord Conservation Engineering, CB3 Design, Roger Hannah, Redmore Environmental, RJT Consulting, Tetra Tech, and E3P. Lanpro is the archeological consultant.
To learn more about the plans, search for application number 22/00588/FUL on Rochdale Council’s planning portal.
Re.crimble mill.i thought there was a preservation order on this building as it was a woolen mill not cotton ,and the remains of the water mill race can be seen.
By J moore
In Heywood, NOT Rochdale.
By Paul
Hi Paul! As Sophie’s story states, the project is in Heywood, which is in the metropolitan borough of Rochdale – thus the use of Rochdale in the headline.
By Julia Hatmaker
This project must be completed before by the other green belt sit at crimble is given eny chance of planning permission
By Anonymous
Moved to heywood 40 year ago from collyhurst thought it was like being in the countryside .(hopwood meadow’s now the crimble ) what a shame how many brownfield sites empty??
By Anonymous
This development is not wanted by residents of Heywood. We don’t want to loose more green spaces. There’s already a big development next to the Heywood motorway junction loosing lots of fields. The greenbelt site is right next to the river which floods on a very regular basis. Heywood residents already struggle to get to even speak to a GP never mind see one so adding hundreds more people will just add greatly to the problem. And then there’s the access issue. To get to to and from the mill there is a small narrow lane. One end has a house on each side of the exit and the other is fields. We’re fed up of Rochdale council ignoring the local residents, building on greenbelt and making money from things we don’t want.
By Anonymous
Can’t see any problem with this. It brings an historical Mill back into use too.
By SW
This development looks fantastic very well done everyone involved
By Peter Gilmartin
There are so many houses being built on green belt land in Heywood that it will flood.
Roads are already at a stand still with traffic.
The motorway is a car park during peak working hours.
Public transport to Manchester is insufficient
No GPs.
Before any more houses are built, the public transport needs massive improvement.
By Heywood resident
So more unaffordable homes for the people of Heywood , like the houses up Hipwood , where are all these rich settlers coming from? to ruin our greenbelt and heritage
By Frank Leach
I would like to know about access to the site,crumble Lane exits on one of the businesses roads in Heywood
By Jfm