Wain Estates pitches 230-home Sandbach resi

The strategic land company has submitted plans for a 160-home development and a 70-bed care facility to Cheshire East Council.

In total, Wain Estates’ site off Crewe Road spans 44 acres – 10 acres will be reserved for houses, while the care home will be built on a half-acre plot on the site’s east.

As an outline application, there is currently no fixed housing mix, but plans indicate there could be a range of house types, suggesting one-bed bungalows, two- and three-bed townhouses, three-bed semi-detached homes, and three-, four-, and five-bed detached properties.

Of the proposed houses, 30% are expected to be affordable.

Wain Estates has employed e*SCAPE Urbanists to design the project, with plans for a 30-acre countryside park and community centre to be considered as part of the application.

The park would be found to the site’s south and would feature a large green meadow space, surrounded by a circular pathway to be used by runners and walkers alike.

In 2016, an appeal lodged after an outline application for up to 200 homes was dismissed was thrown out by the then secretary of state due to concerns over detrimental effects to the green gap, part of a longer-term Cheshire East spatial strategy.

The refreshed application aims to establish greater community benefits and the retention of large green areas to mitigate the effects on the green gap.

Car parking would be provided, with access to the site off Park Lane.

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Contributors to the application include Emery Planning, Smith Grant, TEP. Barnes Walker, Astute, and TDS.

Those interested in the application can view it using the planning reference number 25/1403/OUT in Cheshire East Council’s planning portal.