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Plans for housing estate on protected green land approved despite more than 150 residents objecting
25.02.2022 - 18:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Plans for a new housing estate to be built on protected green land have been approved despite more than 150 objections.
Developer Miller Homes has been granted permission to build 42 ‘family’ houses on land behind Denbigh Drive in High Crompton.
The land is allocated as ‘other protected open land’ (OPOL), which is less protected than green belt but is recognised as important as ‘it helps preserve the distinctiveness of an area’.
However the site has been earmarked for development as part of the Cowlishaw allocation of the ‘Places for Everyone’ masterplan.
Under the plans there would be 22, three bedroom homes and 20, four bedroom dwellings.
Each property would have front and rear gardens and off-street car parking.
There had been originally 50 homes proposed by the developer, but this was reduced following objections by the Greater Manchester Ecology Unit who were concerned it would interfere with a site of biological importance (SBI) in the east.
The council’s planning officers had recommended the plans for approval, subject to the completion of Section 106 agreement for a financial contribution of £100,000 towards existing open space.
Case officer Matthew Taylor said: “It is considered that the amended scheme incorporates measures to prevent harm to the SBI and the proposed layout provides for outward views from the public domain over the remaining rest of the OPOL designation.
“Given the absence of a five-year housing land supply, it is considered that the harm would not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the inherent benefits of the scheme.”
However Councillor Barbara Brownridge said: “I’m slightly concerned that we are are preempting the Places for Everyone policy but we’re also watering it down because we’re
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