Issue - meetings

DC/078265 – 6-16 Lower Hillgate, Stockport

Demolition of the existing building and erection of a new mixed-use building, 14 apartments (floors 2-4) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at a ground floor level.

DC/078266 – 1-3 Lower Hillgate, Stockport

Erection of a new mixed-use building providing 6 affordable residential units (floors 2-4) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at a ground floor level.

DC/078286 – 29-35 Little Underbank, Stockport

Demolition of the existing building and erection of a new mixed-use building providing 12 residential units (floors 2-4) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at a ground floor level.

DC/078287 – Land at Churchgate, Stockport

Erection of a mixed-use building containing 50 residential apartments (4 x studios, 40 x 1 beds, 6 x 2 beds) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and  restaurant uses at an upper ground floor level and

provision of Public Open Space.

The Area Committee is requested to recommend the Planning and Highways Regulation Committee to authorise the Corporate Director (Place) and Deputy Chief Executive to determine the applications, subject to negotiating obligations to be covered by a legal agreement to secure the phased delivery of the development to ensure that the 6 no. affordable ‘shared ownership’ (managed by a RP) apartments proposed for Site ‘B’ (DC/078266) 1-3 Lower Hillgate are delivered first and that public open space including the provision of a ‘Pocket Park’ is provided at an appropriate trigger point mechanism associated with the delivery across the four sites and associated population capacity.

Officer Contact: Dominic Harvey on 0161 474 3544 or email: dominic.harvey@stockport.gov.uk

In respect of:-

DC/078265 – 6-16 Lower Hillgate, Stockport

Demolition of the existing building and erection of a new mixed-use building, 14 apartments (floors 2-4) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at a ground floor level.

DC/078266 – 1-3 Lower Hillgate, Stockport

Erection of a new mixed-use building providing 6 affordable residential units (floors 2-4) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at a ground floor level.

DC/078286 – 29-35 Little Underbank, Stockport

Demolition of the existing building and erection of a new mixed-use building providing 12 residential units (floors 2-4) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at a ground floor level.

DC/078287 – Land at Churchgate, Stockport

Erection of a mixed-use building containing 50 residential apartments (4 x studios, 40 x 1 beds, 6 x 2 beds) with flexible Use Class E floorspace excluding hot food and restaurant uses at an upper ground floor level and

provision of Public Open Space.

a representative of the applicant spoke in support of the applications

It was then

RESOLVED – That the Planning and Highways Regulation Committee Visiting Team be recommended to visit the site given the nature of the schemes and their location within the heart of the historic core of the town centre in order to fully appreciate the sites and development proposals within their context.