Stockport tees up temporary bus depot relocation
Plans for the first 435 homes at Stockport 8 require the demolition of the existing depot off Daw Bank, facilitating the need for two short-term bus compounds while work to find a site for a permanent complex with EV-charging capability drags on.
Stockport Council has submitted plans to use the site of the former Heaton Lane car park and the former Lundy site off Kingston Street as temporary bus depots once the Daw Bank complex has been cleared.
In total, the two sites would provide parking for 148 buses – 83 at Heaton Lane and 65 at the Lundy site – for up to five years.
The temporary double depot solution is required for two reasons. The first is to “mitigate delays” to the process of finding a site for a permanent, depot with EV charging capability for the all-electric fleet of buses earmarked for Stockport, according to planning documents.
The council had been eyeing up the ambulance station on Travis Brow for the depot but no land deal has completed.
The second is to pave the way for the first phase of homes at Stockport 8, the residential-led masterplan that ECF is delivering for the council and its Mayoral Development Corporation.
Phase one would be constructed on the site of the Daw Bank depot and would comprise three apartment blocks of up to 11 storeys with a total of 435 apartments between them.
On the ground level would be a total of 9,500 sq ft of commercial space. The flats are to be energy efficient and capable of achieving net zero status.
The entire 1,300-home Stockport 8 scheme has a projected development cost of £350m.
Deloitte is advising on planning and Shedkm is the architect.
Surely there is a site available in the Green Belt where they could build this?
By Bentley Driver
So that many homes right next to an allready overcrowded bus station will turn the bustation into a battleground for the youth and not safe for the elderly itll be over run and pointless.
By Denis Holden
Exciting times 🙂
By Tom
Hmm, sounds a bit cart before the horse to redevelop your old depot before you’ve found a new one.
Interesting that the depot is already costed at £38.5m when they don’t even know where it will be; i’m not sure how that’s been calculated.
By Anonymous
What about using the former site of ferranti on bird hall Lane for Daw bank bus site and depot.
By Anonymous
Bus station is cold and draughty just like the old one it replaced no doubt at a great expense to the taxpayer, full of Burnham’s tin pot soldiers who can’t do a thing to stop the idiots from running amok in and around the bus station as well as smoking drugs etc, as for the bus station it’s self fancy putting a mural on the wall as far away from public view as possible makes no sense at all,but it’s the same old story if something works some overpaid idiots will come along and bugger it up at great expense to us.
By Annon
As this is a bus maintenance and service depot rather than a passenger bus station/interchange why does it need to be in the town centre? The sites identified for the temporary depot are prime development sites. The park and ride centre in Hazel Grove seems to be under used so this would be a more suitable site.
By Anonymous
Stockport must be costing the gmca a tonne with all these transport ultimatums…not sure how they are getting such preferentially treatment by the CA? surely two sites is far less operationally efficient
By Don cheglioni
@Denis Holden (January 20, 2026 at 8:10 pm)
Putting new homes near the bus interchange and rail station – in the most sustainably accessible place in a borough notorious for its road congestion?
Increasing footfall and overlooking?
By Anonymous
@anonymous (January 20, 2026 at 9:40 pm)
They’ll already have somewhere lined up but just not certain enough to announce, and probably not available soon enough to happen in advance of Stockport8.
The £38.5m will be based on headline cost of building the facility, assuming no unexpected site abnormalities. It’ll end up costing more because these things always do.
By Anonymous
Am I missing something. The temporary bus depot was used while they build the Stockport bus interchange. Now the bus interchange has been built for a few years already.
It would make sense if this article was written 5 years ago
By Gareth
Hi Gareth. Thanks for commenting. The Heaton Lane site was used as a temporary bus station. It is now being proposed as a temporary depot, along with the Lundy site. Best wishes, Dan
By Dan Whelan
Hi Dan, where has the £38.5m figure come from? I looked through the Design and Access Statement and the application cover letter but no mention in either of the New EV Depot cost.
By Question
Hi Question, thanks for commenting. The £38.5m figure was included in error and has now been removed. Best wishes, Dan
By Dan Whelan
This site has planning permission for 435 apartments which equates to £88,500 per plot if it has to fund the relocation of the bus depot at £38.5m. I’m no surveyor, but I can’t imagine this equates to market value.
By UnaPlanner
Could move the depot to the Longley Lane recycling centre in Sharston, if that moves to Bolton.
By Albert
I think the majority of those comenting have either not read the artical properly ir do not understand the difference between a bus station and a bus depot !!
By Brian Bell
I wish they would stop calling them”affordable homes” and call them what they are – unaffordable flats not suitable for families!
By Anonymous
Eleven story blocks of flats right in front of the historic viaduct skyline!! I think is a step to far in what has been up to now an exiting development, surely there are better place in Stockport we can put buildings of this size instead of ruining an historic view of our heritage?!
By Anonymous
Not sure what the hold up is here. Demolition was undertaken an age ago at the Heaton site. We have known publicly about the Stockport 8 plans since August 25 and by the contents of this article it is unlikely to start any time this year or early next year. We constantly complain ourselves into delay after delay. No wonder the likes of FK facades and other reputable sub-contractors are going bust everyday. Get it going and get it built, yesterday. We need to start getting the North West construction industry going in 2026, because we are having a lacklustre start. Keep up the good work Dan Whelan. More positive articles like this one please.
By Andy B
@UnaPlanner (January 21, 2026 at 1:54 pm) – if it wasn’t being relocated they would need to rebuild the bus depot anyway to accomodate the electric bus fleet. The phased roll-out of the electric fleet was changed and buses that should initially have been based out of Stockport were deployed elsewhere because of the need to move the depot instead of just rebuilding on-site.
By Anonymous
Another development in Stockport with inadequate car parking allocation just like those in the Edgeley area.
By Mike
They need to build social housing not affordable homes
By Anonymous
@Mike (January 22, 2026 at 10:30 am)
Shame it isn’t right next door to the bus interchange and less than 5 minutes walk from the rail station. Oh.
By Anonymous
Looking good start the work on them asp
By Dale hart
The residents of Stockport are hilarious. Now I can see why the Councillors are so bananas and got them in the absolute mess that they’re in with the Local Plan and no housing supply. First, everyone moans about all these applications being built on green fields, complaining about not using brownfield first. Then, we have a high density residential development in the town centre on brownfield land and, guess what, everyone moans again! You literally cannot win with some people. Its comical.
By Anonymous
These blocks have been in the make for few years now so wasn’t this sort out before hand , And who will be living in them not people from stockport people moving out of Manchester centre because they can’t afford the rents now .And where are they all going to park ,there already complaining over there no where topark on king street
west at the new flats
By Anonymous