A STORM of protest has greeted proposals to increase the number of homes in the final phase of Warrington’s Chapelford urban village by including three storey apartments.
Revised plans have been put to the borough council’s planning department involving 190 dwellings on a 5.7 hectare site compared with the 156 properties approved in the original proposals approved in October last year.
Developers David Wilson Homes say they want to revise their proposals because the market for apartments has picked up and the changes would widen the range of dwelling types in Chapelford.
The apartments would be sited close to the proposed new railway station, giving close access to the station for more people and offering greater natural surveillance over the station.
Officers are recommending the amended proposals be approved – but there is opposition from local councillors Faisal Rashid and Will Hughes, from Great Sankey Parish Council, from the Chapelford Residents Association and from 49 residents who have signed a protest petition.
They claim that the Chapelford Master Plan classed the final phase of building – approved last year – as “low density.”
The inclusion of the apartments would affect the quality of life and living environment.
Objectors say the proposals would amount to over-development in a “congested corner” close to the proposed station.
If the amended plans are approved, the proposed density of dwellings per hectare would increase from 34 to 41 and the number of homes in Chapelford would be 2110.
