PROPOSALS to change the use of a garden centre and nursery to create a holiday chalet park have been submitted to Warrington’s planning department.
The scheme involves the White Moss nursey off South Lane, Cuerdley – and is on land designated as Green Belt.
It would result in a carefully designed chalet park, with 33 single-storey holiday chalets, each measuring 13m x 4m.
The lodges would be designed to be modular in construction, low in profile, and uniform in height, while sited to maximise privacy and maintain generous landscape buffers between units. The layout follows a gently curving internal road, creating an informal and organic arrangement to avoid a regimented appearance.
Access would be from the existing site entrance on South Lane, which would be widened to improve visibility and safety. A 4-metre-wide internal road with 2-metre verges is proposed to run through the site as a one-way route, with visitor and operational parking located near the entrance and alongside the chalet clusters.
The development would take up the full extent of the previously developed site, including land in the eastern portion that was previously subject to
an enforcement notice.
The previously developed site is currently occupied by a large collection of commercial glasshouses, sheds, hardstanding, and related infrastructure formerly associated with its use as a garden centre. This would be sensitively redeveloped to become a landscape-led, rural tourism scheme delivering measurable economic, environmental, and visual enhancements.
The scheme is brought forward in response to sustained growth in Warrington’s visitor economy and the regional strategy to expand overnight tourism provision and meet a shortfall in overnight accommodation options.
Although in the Green Belt the site clearly qualifies as “grey belt” and does not perform a strong Green Belt function, the applicants say.
Borough council planners are currently considering the proposals
