Full planning permission has been granted to Riverlodge Properties Ltd to replace the Royal Oak pub on Heyes Lane with four semi-detached and one detached dwelling.
A planning application (10/4529M) to build four semi detached and two detached houses was submitted in November 2010 and withdrawn earlier this year. It was then replaced with the application (11/1111M) which has just been passed - the main difference being that plot 5, considered by some local residents to have an overbearing effect on neighbouring properties, had been removed.
The application from Stephen Price at Riverlodge Properties, who took over the lease as a family business in 2005, states that this plot will be the subject of a separate planning application.
The public house has been in existence for many years, but trade had declined dramatically in recent years and the business was no longer economically viable. The Royal Oak closed in April and is currently being demolished.
Conditions imposed upon this application state that prior to the commencement of the development a scheme for the landscaping of the site must be submitted and approved.
Also, no trees, shrubs or hedges within the site which are shown as being retained on the approved plans can be felled, uprooted, wilfully damaged, cut back in any way or removed without the prior written consent of the Local Planning Authority.
The conditions also forbid any development involving the use of external materials to commence until samples of the materials have been approved and no dwelling can be occupied until the access roads and footpaths leading to them have been constructed in accordance with the approved plans.
The planning application and Decision Notice, containing the full list of conditions, can be viewed on the Cheshire East planning portal by searching for planning reference 11/1111M.
Click here to read our earlier articles regarding plans for the Royal Oak pub.
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It will be a big plus living near some high spec houses rather than an unused pub.
I can't wait to see the finished result . The plans looks great , thats why the planning commitee passed them.
As a resident of Heyes Lane and a publican I can say with a heavy heart that it was time for the pub to go.
The planning application was accepted because the plans were well thought through and will make use of an area which would otherwise remain derelict. Any serious objections were dealt with in the correct manner - I even remember seeing a conservation report about the newts which suddenly appeared there when the first application was submitted.
In an ideal world perhaps Waitrose could have ended up there and saved the diversity of the village centre a little but sadly this is not an ideal world and business cases have to work.