A FORMER Ollerton garden centre could be demolished to make way for 34 residences and a community shop.

The site, the former Ollerton Nursery and Plant Centre, has been earmarked by a Mobberley company for development.

Brighouse Homes applied for full planning permission on Friday, August 5, detailing plans to demolish all of the existing buildings on the site, apart from one barn, to build 34 ‘high quality’ residential units, a community shop, as well as landscaping and open space for the residents.

In the design and access statement, Brighouse Homes, says: “Ollerton Oaks is a mixed use, housing development for the village of Ollerton and its community which acts to significantly improve and revitalise the centre of the village.

“The local identity of Ollerton has slowly been reduced over its lifetime and wrongly so. The centre of Ollerton has little to no presence on Chelford Road, many pass through not realising it is there at all, let alone one of Cheshire’s oldest villages.

“Ollerton Oaks changes this. Ollerton Oaks proposes to re-instate the village centre and begin the repairing process of the village’s identity for the community.”

If approved, the developers plan to create a new village green ‘extending the centre of the village through high quality public open space’, as well as build community facilities, renovate the bus stop, create reduced speed limit areas and crossing points on Chelford Road and invest in high-speed broadband.

Thirty per cent of the proposed development, will offer affordable housing under both shared ownership schemes and share ownership for senior living.

Of the 34 proposed houses there will be 24 three bedroom houses, six one bedroom houses, one two bedroom houses and three four bedroom houses.

Housing will take up 75 per cent of the site and the open space will fill the remaining 25 per cent.

The statement added: “The architecture has been developed to reflect the agricultural heritage of the village. The proposal looks to the traditional barn conversion style form and mass, which has been developed through layout across the site. This overall mass has then been converted into dwellings.”

To view the plans in full, use reference number 16/3647M on the Cheshire East Council planning portal.