Miller lodges fresh plans for Timperley’s World of Pets site
Having acquired the former Green Belt site with planning permission for 116 homes, the housebuilder has tabled updated proposals for a 76-home scheme.
Miller Homes bought the former World of Pets site off Thorley Lane from Harlex Property earlier this year after the vendor successfully appealed the refusal of its plans to redevelop the World of Pets site off Thorley Lane in Timperley.
Miller’s vision for the site will see 76 homes delivered, providing a range of properties from one-bedroom maisonettes to five-bedroom detached homes. Almost half of the homes – 45% – will be available via affordable rent or shared ownership.
Hope Architects is leading on the development’s design. NJL Consulting is advising on planning.
To learn more, search for reference number 114619/RES/24 on Trafford Council’s planning portal.
When plans for the project were lodged by Harlex back in 2021, planning consultant Rapleys cited Trafford Council’s poor housing delivery record as a reason the development should go ahead.
In the design and access statement accompanying Miller’s reserved matters application, Hope Architects states that “Early delivery of the first 76 houses in the Timperley Wedge will mark an important milestone, working towards a solution to Trafford and Greater Manchester’s housing crisis”.
These look really good, nice to see something more contemporary rather than mass house builder dirge
By Bradford
So we’re getting fewer homes because Trafford Council are useless at approving planning applications for new homes. If you live in Trafford and your rent has gone up recently – you have Trafford Council’s planning department to blame for stymieing local housing supply thus pushing up rents and house prices.
By Anonymous
Trafford Planners are anti development….it’s that simple. They use every possible delaying and obsfucating tactic they can in the hope they can wear the Applicant down. Their approach flies in the face of any objective analysis.
By anonymous
I will be watching with interest given that the design seems to ignore many of Trafford’s shiny new Design Code “rules” and the conflicting highways “computer says no” approach.
By Anonymous
Be fun getting onto the road around there.
By Anonymous
Does ‘Green Belt’ actually mean anything, these days ?
By Vixenda
Looks great although reducing housing numbers when we have a shortage isnt ideal, I know its big price territory but there is a big demand for smaller properties in this location too.Not sure how it fits with the Trafford design code although thats seems a cut and paste of every other design code and doesnt push on anything contemporary.
By Max Homes
This needs revisiting in light of the PfE plans.
They could have rerouted Wood Lane through here (replacing the section of Wood Lane with missing footpath) to meet with the new Clay Lane junction. Instead, they will finally get rid of the Clay Ln/Whitecarr Ln dog leg, only to replace it with another dog leg at Wood Ln/Thorley Ln/Clay Ln.
By Anonymous
It’s great providing new homes and affordable schemes for young families, but what about the infrastructure! What Schools are these children going to go too? Many Trafford residents can’t get their children into the near by school because of over subscribed places, how about investing in our children’s future and providing some additional schools / buildings provision this should
be made part of the planning application.
By Anonymous
I wouldn’t have thought 5 bedroom houses would be needed as there are plenty of large properties in that area, also very few large families these days, 2 and 3 bedroom houses much better and in demand .
By Olive
Note to editor.
This development is just the World of Pets/World of Water site. The Wyvale/Dobbies Garden Centre site is a different site the other side of the brook.
That site is a Dobbies for now, although Dobbies is due to close at Christmas. It is not allocated for housing in PfE and is supposed to remain as green belt. We’ll be seeing if that actually means anything soon, I guess.
By Anonymous
76 families, Do we get 76 families worth of dentists, doctors, schools etc.. No thought not
By Anonymous
The foxes, bats, birds and newts homes will be destroyed. I see buzzards hunting each day and so much wildlife. It’s sad this small area could not be retained for them. The 2,500 new houses being built across the road in phase 2 should meet the targets set by the GM Partnership. Only 1% of Trafford is classed as natural the BBC completed a study and Trafford is one of the lowest but instead of focusing on brownfield sites they target the green belt area. This is because of the postcode and profit. Sadly this development will ruin the area and there isn’t any space in the schools or others essential services.
By Anonymous
More concreting over green land while the brownfield sites are left to rot. Not enough profit for the developers in brownfield
By Anonymous