Tameside signs off 122 houses
Vacant since 2014, the former ABC Newton Bank Print Works will get a new lease on life with Eccleston Homes securing planning permission to build a neighbourhood on the 12-acre brownfield site in Hyde.
Tameside Council’s planning committee voted to approve the application at its meeting on Wednesday.
Eccleston Homes now has the authority to build the residences on the Clarendon Road plot. Much of the site has already been cleared, but a few remaining buildings will need to be razed to make way for the 122 approved homes.
Of the 122 houses, four are to have only two bedrooms, while 46 will have three and 72 will have four. There are eight house types proposed for the area, but regardless of their differences, each residence will have off-road parking and private gardens to their front and rear.
None of the homes are to be designated as affordable, due to viability concerns related to remediating the land for the scheme.
When plans were first submitted for the project in 2022, it had a gross development value of £47m. Since then, however, the project has undergone a series of changes, including the reduction of the number of homes from 130 to 122, the addition of a playground, and improvements to the drainage strategy and biodiversity net gain.
The project team for the neighbourhood includes planner Connollys, ecologist Ascerta, transport consultant SCP, air quality and noise expert Professional Consult, flood risk adviser RSK, viability assessor Cushman & Wakefield, and Betts Geo.
You can learn more about the scheme by searching reference number 22/01112/FUL on Tameside Council’s planning portal.
Elsewhere in Greater Manchester, Eccleston Homes has secured planning permission for 57 residences in Davyhulme and another 57 in Ramsbottom.
Impressive summary of the project developments! It’s great to see unused spaces being revitalized. Can you share more about the challenges faced in making the land viable? The change in the number of homes seems quite significant—was it mainly due to environmental considerations? Curious to see how such projects affect the community overall.”
By Evadne Larkspur
Non affordable , so much for helping low paid working folks
By Anonymous
It’s great making use of brown land but we need affordable housing. Not overpriced lego houses that majority of people simply cannot afford… I understand that there are implications for the condition of the land bur then you have to question if this will be viable at all in the long run because how many families realistically will be able to afford one of these properties?
By Anonymous
It’s affordable housing that tameside needs not more properties that have rents so high that our young people cannot afford to leave home .The country has gone to the dogs it’s an absolute disgrace !
By Rita Freeman
Non affordable good old council
By Anonymous
We need social housing
By Anonymous
Tameside is fast becoming a huge car park due to mass building projects which will back up roads
By Anonymous
Who would these houses go to I wonder.
By Anonymous
Right on a flood plain (next to a river AND a canal) with poor access on an already busy road at both ends of the site. What could possibly go wrong?
By Anonymous