Family homes teed up

A FORMER golf clubhouse and driving range could be demolished to make way for eight new family homes.

Moorend Golf Course, in Bramhall, Stockport, closed after the Manchester Airport Relief Road was built across its northern edge – however, the driving range facility continued to operate.

But in November bosses announced it too would shut, due to ‘continued bad weather, the closure of the golf course, and tenancy problems.’

Now plans have been submitted by On Point Developments to build eight three-bedroom houses on the site of the old clubhouse and driving range buildings. The 6,953 sq ft site – which also includes a car park – sits in the green belt, but the scheme would not encroach on the former course.

A document accompanying the application stresses that the properties would be sympathetic to the current character of the area.

It states: “The scheme has been specifically prepared to ensure that the redevelopment causes no greater impact on the green belt than the existing buildings – utilising the same footprint and also limiting the heights of the proposed dwellings to be the same as the driving range and clubhouse.”

The developer also points to national planning rules which allow building on previously developed land provided it would ‘not have a greater impact on the openness of the green belt than the existing development.’

Access to the estate would continue to be off Woodford Road – with the applicant noting that golf course ‘attracted a considerably higher volume of traffic’ than the new homes would. There would be a total of 20 parking spaces for residents.

A decision on whether to grant planning permission for the new homes will be made by Stockport council.