Tameside to debate 440 Hyde homes
Council officers have recommended the approval of Sintra Property Developments’ hybrid application for 60 acres of fields on either side of Stockport Road in the village of Gee Cross, south of Hyde.
Tameside Council’s planning committee members will cast their votes on the proposal at a meeting next week. While the project has officer recommendation, it has also been the subject of 355 letters of objection and only three letters of support.
The land, which includes the grade two star-listed Apethorn Farmhouse, was previously Green Belt. However, it was removed from that designation as part of the Places for Everyone spatial strategy for Greater Manchester that was adopted in 2024.
Sintra recruited James Bell Architecture and Planit to draw up initial designs for the site, including the provision for a quarter of it to be reserved for open space and green infrastructure. Three children playgrounds are to make up part of the open space plans.
The proposals also include a target to deliver 15% affordable homes – that would be 66 residences should the scheme deliver on its outline potential.
Full planning permission is being sought to convert the Apethorn Farmhouse into four residences and to demolish the nearby Pear Tree Farm building complex – essentially clearing the land for development.
Access to the future development would be from two spots off Stockport Road.
In addition to James Bell Architecture and Planit, the project team includes AshtonHale. CBO Transport, Soil Environment Services, BWB Consulting, Tyler Grange, Orion Heritage, Design for Security, GTech Surveys, Element Sustainability, Weetwood, Shaw Stephens Consulting, RJK Consulting, Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture, and Thomasons.
To learn more about the application search reference 25/00173/OUT on Tameside Council’s planning portal.
we live very close to this location, our roads and school’s are over filled,this will kill our community and our country side if it goes ahead
By KEVIN
Finish the A6 relief road through Bredbury first!
By Jaydawg
@Jaydawg June 18, 2026 at 12:44 pm
New roads simply create more traffic. This is a principle – induced demand – that has been understood to apply to traffic for approaching 100 years now, and yet people still think that building new roads is the solution to too much traffic; it isn’t, the solution is to invest (heavily) in alternatives so that the existing road space can be used more efficiently by those for whom the alternatives aren’t suitable.
By Anonymous