Westchurch sets out plans for 134 Bredbury homes
Thirteen acres of Green Belt land off Shakespeare Road on the southern fringe of the Stockport town are the subject of plans for a mix of one- to four-bed affordable properties.
Westchurch Homes wants to deliver 134 discounted tenure properties in on the site, which has been earmarked for residential development in Stockport Council’s emerging local plan.
The housebuilder is in discussions with Mosscare St Vincents about a deal that would see the registered provider acquire the site subject to planning approval, according to planning documents.
The borough has a housing land supply deficit and is able to demonstrate sites for less than two years’ worth of housing against a statutory target of five years. Stockport Council is one of three North West local authorities placed on notice for its sluggish housing delivery.
Maybern Planning is advising Westchurch Homes on planning matters and MCK Associates is leading on design.
To learn more, search for reference number DC/098893 on Stockport Council’s planning portal.
This site was in Stockport’s draft local plan last year so I’d assume if the detail is right it’ll proceed with an officer recommendation to approve. I look forward to the councillors refusing the application and the inspectorate granting it on appeal.
By Anonymous
Great more houses means more vehicles into an area where the traffic congestion is already a nightmare at times. No thought out plan just blatant cash grab.
By Anonymous
Next door to the former, legendary ‘Bredders’ Nightclub.
By Grimly Fiendish
@Anonymous – August 19, 2026 at 11:31
The development – like all developments – will be expected to show that any adverse impact on transport networks is (or can be mitigated to be) less than severe.
And ‘blatant cash grab’ isn’t the first phrase that comes to mind for a development which is proposed to be 100% affordable housing. Yes, some people – notably the landowners – might well make money out of it but that’s because that’s how this country has chosen to try and meet its housing needs over the past 5 decades.
By Lee Nicholas
Affordable to who ? From looking at the outlay of houses in the current plans, nearly every house has provision for 2 cars each. When an obvious scenario happens when friends and family would like visit, there will inevitably be cars that will be parked half on road and half on the pavement. 80 houses seems plausible. Having said that, the council would probably get more council from 134 houses compared with 80 and I wouldn’t like to try and get out of there in the morning to go to work, taking into account the residents that currently live in that area. Thought provoking to say the least.
By Anonymous