A Wistaston councillor has branded the approval of plans for a huge 660-home development on green fields near the village “devastating” news.
Ward Cllr Margaret Simon and representatives from Wistaston Parish Council vociferously objected to the plans by Harworth Estates at the Cheshire East Council strategic planning board.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans for up 660 homes and a 60-bed care home on fields in the strategic green gap at Wistaston have been recommended for approval.
About 120 residents have objected to Harworth Group’s proposals for a residential development and neighbourhood centre on a 44-hectare site to the east of Middlewich Road.
Dear Editor,
I am very concerned about an application to build 188 new houses with associated access and infrastructure on unspoilt pastureland in Willaston within the Strategic Green Gap between Crewe and Nantwich.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans have been submitted for 23 homes in the open countryside and within the green gap at Shavington.
John Malam has applied for permission to build the dwellings, including eight affordable, on land off Alfred King Close.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans for up to 120 homes in the green gap in Shavington have been approved after councillors were warned they must “pick their battles” when they initially proposed to refuse the scheme.
The application site, in the open countryside west of Crewe Road and south of Gresty Lane, comprises 5.8 hectares of agricultural land.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans for up to 120 homes in the green gap at Shavington have been recommended for approval because Cheshire East doesn’t have a five-year housing land supply.
The application site, in open countryside west of Crewe Road and south of Gresty Lane, comprises 5.8 hectares of agricultural land.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans have been submitted for up to 120 homes in the green gap on land west of Crewe Road at Shavington.
The site, in the open countryside south of Gresty Lane, comprises 5.8 hectares of ‘intensively farmed’ agricultural land.
Dear Editor,
As a concerned resident, I am alarmed by Redrow Homes’ plans to build 220 houses on a 12.6-hectare site off Crewe Road in Wistaston.
This area currently consists of open fields and grassland, forming part of the strategic green gap between Crewe and Nantwich.
By Stephen Topping
Plans to build 15 new homes in the green gap near Shavington have been rejected by Cheshire East Council.
Members of the southern planning committee unanimously rejected the scheme, which included four, three-bedroom affordable dwellings, at a meeting yesterday (August 8).
The Government’s decision to allow 300 homes to be built on Witters Field in Wistaston, has undermined the Nantwich-Crewe green gap.
That was the warning from Cheshire East Councillor Ainsley Arnold.
Councillors and campaigners in Wistaston are celebrating after an appeal won by Gladman Developments to build 300 homes was overturned by the Government.
Gladman wanted to build the homes on land off Church Lane, Wistaston, but were initially refused by Cheshire East Council.
A developer has submitted plans to build 250 houses on another piece of green land in Willaston, Nantwich, it emerged today.
The plan is for a 28-acre site bounded by Park Road in Willaston, the A51 Nantwich bypass between Cheerbrook and Peacock roundabouts, and the Crewe-Nantwich railway line.
A developer taking its plans for 170 homes in Willaston, near Nantwich, to appeal has submitted a second scaled down application for 146 properties. Richborough Estates wants to build on land off Moorfields on Wistaston Road, Willaston, despite a large number of objections from local residents.
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