PLANS have been submitted for a 65 unit housing development in Holmes Chapel just yards from a proposed Aldi supermarket.

The application, which was submitted in September, outlines plans to build up to 65 two and three storey residential buildings on the site off Manor Lane.

Cheshire East Council have received the plans just weeks after an application was submitted for an Aldi on the same site, which is a disused business park.

Liberty Property Developments, as well as Aldi Stores UK, are seeking to demolish the existing vacant buildings on the site before starting construction.

Residents have raised their concerns about the development, suggesting that Holmes Chapel does not have the resources to support additional houses.

John and Thelma Dutton of Arran Close wrote in an objection to the council: “The Health Centre cannot cope with demand at present and the local schools are full to over-brimming.

“There is totally inadequate parking available. The roads are often jammed and the situation when there are accidents on the adjacent M6 which are frequent is appalling and dangerous.

“This development is unnecessary and would be totally unsustainable. It is yet another example of a developer wanting to take advantage of the council’s utter failure to produce a Local Plan and thus being able in effect to do just whatever it wants to do.”

Access to the site, which is on brownfield land, would be from Manor Lane and Station Road, which has raised concerns with residents over traffic flow.

Richard Wilson, of Humber Drive, wrote: “While I have no objection to the much needed redevelopment of the currently disused land in question, the additional of 65 dwellings and the associated traffic would create traffic issues that Manor Lane, as currently set up and as the plans request, would not be able to deal with.”

Holmes Chapel Parish Council have also objected to the plans on a number of grounds, suggesting that there is ‘little remaining brownfield land in the Parish available for commercial and industrial use’, whilst also highlighting that this site is close in proximity to a 100 house development at Saltersford Corner and a 24 house development on the corner of Marsh Lane.

The deadline for comments from members of the public is Thursday October 22, and comments on the Aldi planning application will be closed on Wednesday October 14.