Stockport Council’s Planning & Highways Regulation Committee has been recommended to give its approval to 76 new homes in Heald Green when it meets on Thursday 13th February.
The Council’s planning officers have recommended councillors give the green light to the new homes which will occupy a four-acre to the East of Wilmslow Road in Heald Green, surrounding Outwood House. The site is designated as Greenbelt, although part of the site has been most recently used as airport parking, and neighbouring sites have previously gained planning approval for development.
Developer, WTGB, in partnership with Wythenshawe Community Housing Group, have proposed a mix of 44 two-storey homes and 33 apartments across two blocks. 66 of the properties are to be released as affordable homes, across a mix of social rent, shared ownership and rent-to-buy schemes, with the remaining 10 properties, all four-bedroom houses, to be sold outright at market rates.
Calderpeel Architects designed the development, with plans prepared on behalf of the developers by Eden Planning and Development.
Given the nature of the site, and the significant affordable housing provision, councillors have been recommended to approve the development despite the loss of Green Belt land. The Council’s planning officers determined that the site has met special conditions needed to permit the scheme, while also acknowledging that Stockport lacks adequate supply of land to meet its housebuilding targets. A lack of housing supply has been a factor which has seen the national Planning Inspectorate overturn a number of decisions by Stockport Council to deny planning permission to larger housing developments, such as most recently at Mirrlees Fields in Hazel Grove.
Stockport Council’s Planning & Highways Regulation Committee will meet Thursday 13th February to decide on the scheme.
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