Battle lines drawn over 50 green belt homes bid
ALARGE developer already involved in one controversial housing development is behind another to build 50 new homes in the green belt.
Jones Homes want to site 50 largely detached properties at Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, and its planning application will go before an East Cheshire Council committee today (Wednesday, September 1).
Planning officers recommend it be approved but the application has met with a large amount of objections from residents, the local parish council and even the Gardens Trust.
The development would be split across two of the remaining residential parcels of land in the southern campus area of Alderley
Park, off Congleton Road.
The first is referred to as the walled garden, where 17 are planned, and the second is the kitchen garden, which would see 33 built.
Although Jones Homes - a company part of contentious plans for around 400 houses in Broken Cross - has revised the plans there is still a large amount of discontent.
Housing officers are unhappy that only 15 per cent, rather than the desired 30, has been agreed as affordable homes.
Residents also say there is too little green space in what has been an ‘historically significant’ garden site, density issues and traffic worries near the busy A34.
They have also raised concerns that three storey houses - although now fewer following revision to the plans - will be overbearing.
Nether Alderley Parish Council has also written a lengthy objection saying: “It is a great disappointment to see the massing and density of the application causing overcrowding on the two small historic areas of Alderley Park.
“The parish council still feel the provision is lacking. This has been a familiar pattern with all previously developed areas in the park and our continued concerns are now becoming a reality.
“Cars being parked along roadsides, on verges and outside houses are common practice.
“No one uses garages for cars and this has to be factored in.”
The objection predicts that another 50 mostly four and five-bed homes will lead to an additional 150 cars - a problem magnified by the trend of people using garages for storage rather than parking.
Despite being in the land, securing a highquality scheme in an appropriate location and in delivering a further capital receipt to the ongoing repurposing exercise for Alderley Park.
“This scheme will help Alderley Park to fulfil its objectives to ensure the site is competing for investment at a national and international level.”