When The Strategic Land Group began working on this 4.5 acre site on the southern edge of Wilmslow, in Cheshire East, it was designated as green belt in the local plan. Green belt policy provides a high degree of protection from development, and prevents most new projects.
By promoting the site through the council's local plan process, we were successful in having the site removed from the green belt and re-designated as "safeguarded land." Despite the somewhat confusing name, this means the site is now safeguarded for future development - nothing is allowed to happen on site that would prevent it from having new homes built on it in future.
That local plan is now quite old, and the council are beginning to prepare its replacement. The next - and hopefully final - stage in the promotion process will be to have the site upgraded to a specific housing development as part of that local plan process.
When The Strategic Land Group began working on this 4.5 acre site on the southern edge of Wilmslow, in Cheshire East, it was designated as green belt in the local plan. Green belt policy provides a high degree of protection from development, and prevents most new projects.
By promoting the site through the council's local plan process, we were successful in having the site removed from the green belt and re-designated as "safeguarded land." Despite the somewhat confusing name, this means the site is now safeguarded for future development - nothing is allowed to happen on site that would prevent it from having new homes built on it in future.
That local plan is now quite old, and the council are beginning to prepare its replacement. The next - and hopefully final - stage in the promotion process will be to have the site upgraded to a specific housing development as part of that local plan process.
When The Strategic Land Group began working on this 4.5 acre site on the southern edge of Wilmslow, in Cheshire East, it was designated as green belt in the local plan. Green belt policy provides a high degree of protection from development, and prevents most new projects.
By promoting the site through the council's local plan process, we were successful in having the site removed from the green belt and re-designated as "safeguarded land." Despite the somewhat confusing name, this means the site is now safeguarded for future development - nothing is allowed to happen on site that would prevent it from having new homes built on it in future.
That local plan is now quite old, and the council are beginning to prepare its replacement. The next - and hopefully final - stage in the promotion process will be to have the site upgraded to a specific housing development as part of that local plan process.
