Stockport approves 300-home plan for Barnes Hospital

A PLAN to build 300 houses and apartments at the derelict Barnes Hospital in Cheadle has been approved, but could be called in by communities secretary Eric Pickles.

Manchester-based Edenhouse Estates has applied to convert the grade II-listed former convalescence home, which closed in 1999, into 78 apartments and build a further 100 flats in three blocks to the north.

There would also be 63 homes to the east and south and 59 apartments in two blocks to the south west of the main building which sits between the M60, the A34 and two slip roads.

A council spokesperson said: “The council’s Planning and Highways Committee recommended that planning permission and listed building consent should be approved subject to an appropriate legal agreement. As this application is a departure from the development plan the application will be referred to the Secretary of State to consider whether it is necessary to ‘call-in’ the decision.”

Edenhouse Estates was founded in 2006 by Nick Carter, Kevin Pickersgill and Gareth Jones. It is understood to have acquired the 17-acre site last year.

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