Crucial planning meeting over 263-home development

Hundreds of residents living on a Cheshire housing estate that had it's planning permission revoked will learn next week if their nightmare is finally over.

Permission was originally given to Countryside Partnerships to build the 263-home Coppenhall Place development on the former Bombardier site in Crewe in 2018.

However, the developer failed to deal with a condition relating to contaminated land and the original planning consent was considered void.

Attempts were made resolve the situation in March 2023 and November 2023, but a decision was deferred by councillors.

On Wednesday, almost two years to the day after the application was first brought back to the council's strategic planning board, it is set to be considered for a third time.

As with the previous two occasions, the recommendation from planning officers is to approve the scheme.

Officers previously told councillors the contaminated land did not present a danger to human health.

"This application has been deferred on two previous occasions to consider matters of viability, use of the public open space and matters over contaminated land, with particular focus on how this has been addressed through the development of the site," their report stated.

It added: "It is considered that a landscape-led solution to the area of public open space is the appropriate way to treat this area following consultations with residents.

"With regards to garden areas, it is now considered that we have got to a point where a significant number of the properties have been satisfactorily treated, and environmental protection are happy with the works being undertaken, and that we have an agreed approach to dealing with the remaining properties through conditions."

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations.

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