A planning application has been submitted to turn a disused Marple office building into an 85-bed high dependency nursing home after having lain empty since 2010.
Westwood Trading Estate was previously occupied by insurance call centre, Call 24/7, until 2008, and WNS until 2010 when the business moved to Cheadle Heath. The site has since fallen into dereliction over the last 13 years, and become a hotspot if criminality and anti-social behaviour in the area according to the planning submission. The site itself, accessed from Eastwood Drive and Throstle Grove in Marple, is surrounded on all sides by housing, with the local area defined as largely residential in Stockport’s most recent Local Plan.
New plans for the former call centre are now proposing to demolish the two existing office buildings buildings, which have been deemed unsafe after previous flooding and fire damage, and seek outline permission for a purpose-built nursing home that is more in-keeping with surrounding residential areas.
The outline planning application proposes clearing the site entirely of existing structures to make way for an approximately 85-bed nursing home, alongside associated staff and visitor parking and open spaces. An indicative layout prepared by GreenSkyArchictecture for the application propose a four-storey building for the site
The planning submission has ben prepared by Civitas Planning on behalf of applicant, Ian Griswold.
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