Developers, Russell LDP, has begun preparing plans for a development of over 500 new homes in Woodford, adjacent to Harrow Estates’ Woodford Garden Village scheme.
The developer is currently preparing an outline planning application for the approximately 30 hectare site off Chester Road and has submitted a Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Scoping Request to Stockport Council as it draws up plans. Proposals for the site are expected to include up 380 new homes, plus 15 self-build plots, alongside a 75-bed care facility and 75 independent elderly living homes, though totals are not yet fixed. The scheme will also include a nature park, and incorporate an existing public footpath into open spaces in the development area.
Development will also see existing buildings at 469, 471 and 499 Chester Road demolished to enable site access, with other structures on the site also set to be demolished.
While the scheme proposes development on a Green Belt site, Stockport Council is without a Local Plan and has been unsuccessful at blocking development on the borough’s outskirts, with two smaller scale Green Belt housing schemes approved in March in Bramhall and Hazel Grove, and having had decisions to deny planning permission, including at Mirlees Fields, overturned at appeal.
The proposed development site also sits adjacent to Harrow Estates’ Woodford Garden Village scheme on the former Woodford Aerodrome site, and is set to be expanded to add a further 540 homes to the community should plans submitted earlier this year be approved.
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