Bid for new homes on site of former grammar school
A DERELICT grammar school could be demolished to make way for new family homes and flats if developers’ plans get the go-ahead.
An application to build 24 houses and 13 apartments on the former Hulme Hall School site, in Cheadle Hulme, has been lodged with the town hall.
The school closed in 2017, due to its ageing 60s and 70s buildings falling into disrepair and relocated to the former Hillcrest Grammar School in Davenport.
Over the last two years, the site has become dilapidated and derelict - posing a major security, health and safety concern for residents and the site owner.
But now developers Seddon and PH Property Holdings have come forward with plans for the site, which include a ‘broad range’ of two and three-bed apartments and two-to-five bedroom semidetached and detached family houses.
The plot, off Hulme Hall Road, sits within the Swann Lane Conservation Area, which includes Hulme Hall itself and No. 1 Higham Street - a former inn, weavers cottage and farm. Both are Grade II listed.
Charlotte Fowler, of agents P4 Planning, said: “The Hulme Hall Grammar School site is a fantastic location, sitting within a predominantly residential area which will benefit from the new homes and transformation provided by this scheme.
“We have been particularly keen to get this application submitted as permission is required to demolish the old school buildings which lie in a conservation area and have recently become a focus for anti-social behaviour.”
The new homes will be mainly two-storey, although some will have a roof space and contain ‘sensitive’ three-storey ‘elements’ said to be ‘very much of the appropriate scale for the site and its surrounding’.