Plans for nine homes in one of Cheshire's most-desirable postcodes

Fancy living on the outskirts of Alderley Edge?

A developer has applied for permission in principle for nine homes on the site of a storage depot near Alderley Edge. Thomas Jones and Sons (Liverpool) Ltd, wants to replace the existing commercial buildings at Great Warford Storage Park on Great Ancoats Lane with the new dwellings.

A planning statement submitted by Emery Planning, on behalf of the applicant, states: “Although the site is within open countryside that is designated green belt, within this part of the countryside there are numerous large clusters of residential development which means that the site is not isolated. In proximity to the site, in addition to older cottages, larger detached houses and houses associated with agricultural and equestrian establishments, there is a modern development of 36 houses constructed as redevelopment of the former Mary Dendy Hospital.”

It continues: “We consider that the proposed development would comprise redevelopment of previously developed land that would cause no substantial harm to the openness of the green belt.”

Since the changes to the national planning policy framework introduced by the Labour government last year, Cheshire East no longer has a five-year housing land supply.

The planning document from Emery says: “A lack of a five-year housing supply will render the policies that are the most important for determining the application as out-of-date.”

The developer is applying for ‘permission in principle’. This is two-stage mechanism for obtaining planning approval for housing development. The first stage, which is being applied for now, is to establish whether the site is suitable in principle.

Emery says: “No adverse impacts have been identified relating to the matters of location, land use and amount of development that would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against the policies of the framework (national planning policy framework) as a whole.”

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