Plans for over 500 build-to-rent apartments on the former town centre Sainsbury’s supermarket site are set to move forward after being recommended for approval by Stockport Council planning officers.
Amstone Ventures submitted plans in December last year for 563 new homes on the 3.28 acre plot. The scheme will feature a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments as well as 34 three-bedroom townhouses. Plans will split apartments across three blocks and open up the riverside along the Goyt for pedestrian access into the town’s main shopping district.
Dubbed Knightsbridge, the £100 million plans have been altered from their original design for the planning application in light of a public consultation exercise and feedback from Stockport Council and PlacesMatter, which has seen properties consolidated into three buildings, rather than six, and widened the public access routes through the scheme.
While the Sainsbury’s supermarket building will be demolished to make way for the scheme, underground parking facilities at the store will be repurposed to provide parking for residents via a new access round to link the site with major routes and avoid increasing traffic through Stockport town centre itself. The scheme also aims to improve walking and cycling routes into the town centre from the Eastern side.
The scheme will complement further housing being brought forward to the West of the town centre by Stockport’s Mayoral Development Corporation as part of the council’s £1 billion regeneration programme.
Plans were put before Stockport Council’s Central Area Committee for approval on 20th October, and will progress for further review by the borough’s Planning & Highways Regulation Committee later this year before work can begin.
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