Stockport gets ball rolling on town centre school
An integral part of the council’s resi-led regeneration agenda, the through school could accommodate around 1,500 primary and secondary pupils on an as yet unnamed town centre site.
Consultants have been put on alert as Stockport Council looks to appoint a design team to draw up a plan for the school.
The project would sit within the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation’s recently extended masterplan for the town centre, which also features plans for 8,000 homes – 4,000 in the west and 4,000 in the east.
The school site, the location of which the council is keeping confidential for now, is located close to local transport nodes, including the bus interchange, according to tender documents.
The delivery of a school ties in with Stockport’s ambition for all children in Stockport to “grow up healthy, happy with confidence, ambition and surrounded by love, care and kindness” and is viewed as an important piece of infrastructure to support the town’s growing population, the documents state.
Last month, Place North West revealed the council and the MDC were also on the hunt for a consultancy team to develop a delivery strategy for the first chunk of the masterplan – 22 acres off Newbridge Lane.
Well not just school BUT need build a GP surgery/doctor and dentist which is very important for family and children and I think excellent plans for 1500 new home and new local areas of Stockport. 👍🏻
By G J Kitchener
@ April 13, 2026 at 10:21 am
By G J Kitchener
A blended medical centre and Community Diagnostics Centre would be a good idea for the town centre.
By Rye
Will any of these homes be actually houses not just more apartments? Children need gardens too,not just a view across more apartments.
By Anonymous
@Rye April 13th 10.21am
Sound good to me, coffee shop would be great, I like your idea by the way mate 👍🏻
By G J Kitchener
Anonymous – try thinking outside the box that the likes of Barratt Homes have convinced you and many other people to think within. Families live perfectly well, healthily and happily in apartment developments all across the developed world. Gardens really aren’t as important to wellbeing as you think they are; certainly not compared to the benefits of, for example, having the certainty of a (permanent) roof over your head.
By Anonymous
@ April 13, 2026 at 1:18 pm
By Anonymous
It’s a fair point. Some more townhouses with gardens for kids should be part of the mix of any inner urban development
By Rye
It will probably be for Cheadle Hazel Grove then sort of areas not for areas where I live in Reddish liberals always look after their own
By Andy
Hope they are going to be houses. Too many apartments. Also needs Dr’s, dentists and may be park for children to play in
By Margaret
As ever, some anons. would benefit from a visit to our continental neighbours, where families not only live in apartments in dense urban centres – but also enjoy better educational outcomes, health outcomes and earnings…
By Anonymous
@Andy… er, no, it’ll be for the town centre.
@Margaret… a park like the new one they’ve already built?
And @several people… if they build houses in the town centre rather than apartments, at a significantly lower density, which unsustainably located fields out in the greenbelt are they going to use to make up the increased shortfall in homes?
By Anonymous
I live off newbridge lane the parking is unbelievable, especially at school times for cernon park school. They are apparently building 4 house and 1 bungalow on the corner of St Mary’s way where the trees are up on the top. Mind blowing really, we can’t park on our own street and the side st where a lot of residents of alpine park on won’t be there so where will they park?? 3.30 on alpine rd is a complete joke as cars are going to collect kids, plus it’s a dead end. Whoever closed off on this must never of been on alpine rd.
By Anonymous