By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East has adopted the second part of its local plan with some councillors voting against it.
Some warned at the council meeting this week that planners would have to go back to the drawing board if it was rejected.
Cheshire East Council’s revised planning policy for the borough has been declared “sound” by an independent planning inspector.
The draft plan, known as the site allocation and development policy document (SADPD), outlines changes following various consultations with residents and local councils.
Cheshire East Council says it has beefed up its guidance to developers around housing schemes.
Affordable housing and accommodation for the elderly are key features of a new housing supplementary planning document (SPD) that has been formally adopted.
Cheshire East Council is looking at developing a planning strategy for the borough that extends into the 2040s.
It says the current Local Plan needs to respond to the arrival of HS2 at Crewe and the investment opportunities it should bring.
A bid to demolish a building in the picturesque village of Bunbury and build 15 new homes, looks set to be refused.
The application for the new development is for land to the west of Parkside bungalow, off Bunbury Lane.
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
A controversial plan for development in Cheshire East has been passed by council cabinet and will go out for public consultation.
Cheshire East Council is bidding to ditch some housing allocations from its Local Plan Strategy to prevent them swallowing up more green belt.
The move comes as the authority takes next steps to finalising the second part of its Local Plan Strategy.
Dear Editor,
As a member of Cheshire East’s Local Plan Panel and planning committees for some years, I write regarding letters in the press about housing and the Cheshire East Local Plan.
Dear Editor,
It is now a year since this Labour/Independent administration of Cheshire East conducted their own next phase of the Local Plan consultation.
The completed consultation of 2018 was abandoned under a headline of “a reduction in allocated housing sites”.
The MP for Crewe & Nantwich has vowed to fight any attempt to expand a controversial development in Nantwich given the go ahead by the Government.
Dr Kieran Mullan said he was “very disappointed” that Cheshire East Council will not appeal the Secretary of State’s decision to allow Muller Properties to build 189 homes on land in Stapeley.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Council chiefs insist they will take on board residents’ concerns about the next part of the local plan – including a possible traveller transit site in Middlewich.
Consultation recently came to an end on Cheshire East Council’s latest draft for its Site Allocations and Development Policies Document (SADPD).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council chiefs could be forced to review their local plan if MPs give the green light for HS2 to hit Cheshire.
The authority adopted its local plan strategy for up to 2030 last July – three years after it was told to go back to the drawing board after submitting its first draft to the planning inspectorate.
New Government figures show that Cheshire East lost the third-biggest amount of greenbelt land out of 10 English boroughs to adopt new local plans last year, writes Stephen Topping.
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