Stockport Council’s Cheadle Area Committee has approved planning permission to build eight new homes on the site of a former hotel on Finney Lane, Heald Green.
The hotel building, a converted pair of semi-detached homes, has been unused for 15 years but the site will now see a new lease of life. Cheshire-based construction company, Beluga Projects, will demolish the existing buildings, and replace them with eight new three-bedroom properties.
The proposed new homes will be accessed by a side-road from Finney Lane, with each home having a private garden and home office, in line with recent demand following the coronavirus pandemic. Plans for electric vehicle charging facilities have also be incorporated into designs.
The scheme originally proposed to build nine four-bedroom homes on the hotel site, but was amended in light of concerns that the development would add excess pressure on local facilities in Heald Green. Council planning officers had previously recommended the amended plans for approval, given its location within an already residential area.
Beluga Projects intends that all the new homes will all be put up for open market sale.
Stockport Council’s Cheadle Area Committee approved the scheme in an online meeting on 20th April. During the meeting, councillors also recommended for approval plans put forward by local charity, St Ann’s Hospice, who plan to demolish their existing buildings in the area to replace them with a new, more modern hospice as well as deliver an additional 40 new homes on their site in Heald Green.
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