Rochdale tips 199-home Littleborough scheme for consent
Taylor Wimpey has been waiting more than three years for a decision on its 35-acre Smithy Bridge Road scheme.
Rochdale Council’s planning committee will meet this week to determine the 199-home Littleborough plan, which is recommended for approval despite accruing 325 letters of objection.
The site sits west of Smithy Bridge Road, a key route between the A58 Halifax Road and the popular Hollingworth Lake, and is included as a draft allocation in Greater Manchester’s Places for Everyone plan.
After three years of back and forth with the council over the housing mix and layout, Taylor Wimpey has settled on a scheme that proposes 125 detached houses, 62 semi-detached houses and 12 terrace houses.
Of these, six would have two bedrooms, 115 would have three bedrooms properties, 66 would have four and 12 would have five. Five of the properties would be offered up for social rent.
Around half of the site would be developed with the remainder preserved as public or open space.
The application also covers the construction of the first phase of a link road between Smithy Bridge Road and Albert Royds Street.
The application has been lodged on behalf of Taylor Wimpey, the trustees of the Wood Trust, and David Antony Buckley. Its reference number is 22/01364/FUL.
Pegasus is leading on design and Turley is advising on planning.
The housebuilder had originally expected to be on site in mid-2024 with the first houses occupied in 2025.
Article doesn’t mention that that Smithy Bridge station on the Calder Valley Line (and 25 mins to Victoria) is on the doorstep. I’m guessing if they didn’t build this it would get sucked into the new planning regime around rail station adjacent land.
By Rich X