Another 144 new homes are planned for Stockport town centre - and they are all ‘affordable’. Housing association Great Places has submitted plans for 144 apartments split across two new buildings at the corner of King Street West and Chestergate. Properties include a mix of one and two-bedroom flats and duplexes.
The first of the ‘mirrored’ blocks would boast 96 flats available for ‘affordable rent’. Facing on to Chestergate, the L-shaped building is predominantly seven-storey but drops down to six and five levels along its eastern side. The second offers 48 properties under the government-backed ‘right to buy’ scheme - allowing people to rent at 20pc discount, while saving for a deposit to purchase their home.
Another split-level building, its seven-storey elevation fronts on to King Street West, while a five storey element faces towards Chestergate. The site sits within the Town Centre West regeneration zone - Stockport's burgeoning 3,500 home ‘urban village’ - close where Great Places is to build 73 apartments on an old car wash site.
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Planning papers describe the plot as being of ‘poor quality’, featuring a mix of ‘vacant, tired and derelict’ buildings, as well as an area of open land mainly used for the open storage of motor vehicles. Development would also require the demolition of the long-vacant Mentor House - part of the former Chestergate Hat Company offices - a former newsagents and the former Kidsaurus play centre.
