WINSFORD Town Council has applied for planning permission to build houses on Greenfield land previously mooted as possible allotment space.

Five detached and two semi-detached homes, as well as associated landscaping and parking, will be developed on land off Springbank Crescent under the council’s plans.

Documents were submitted to Cheshire West and Chester planners at the end of September, stating WTC’s intent to create a new road off Springbank Crescent to access the 0.8 acre site.

The land was previously suggested as ideal land on which to situate allotments by the now mayor of Winsford, clr Mike Kennedy.

He said: said: “Years ago, before I was a councillor, I put it to the council that wouldn’t it be preferable for residents in the vicinity, and the town council, to convert arable land that had been worked on as a free hold for allotments.”

The current application has been submitted through property services company, Wright Manley, and doesn’t include provision for any affordable housing.

Supporting documents state the development is ‘complementary to the settlement and offers a strategic approach to rural growth and to enhance the character of the locality’.

“Equally good design and the proposed use of high quality materials and construction methods ensure that the proposed buildings have no detrimental impact on the openness of this settlement,” it adds.

United Utilities say they have no objection to the proposal, provided the site is drained. They add that WTC may have to pay to divert a public sewer that crosses the site.

The site is overgrown and enclosed by residential houses, ‘therefore the proposed scheme would positively contribute to the character and appearance of the locality’ says the supporting statement.

It concludes: “The proposal would positively contribute via regeneration to the character of the area, improve the built vernacular, minimally disrupt at the same time as retain local distinctiveness.”

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