A ‘dilapidated’ former nurses’ home that has become a magnet for anti-social behaviour could be demolished and replaced with ‘high quality’ new houses.
Developer AM7 Group has lodged plans to build 27 homes on the site of the long-vacant building at Cheadle Royal Hospital, in Wilmslow Road, Heald Green.
Dubbed ‘The Royal Quarter’, new proposals feature a mix of three, four and five bedroom properties, including townhouses as well as detached and semi-detached homes.
A new vehicle entrance would be created from the nearby St Ann’s Hospice and each home would have two parking spaces. While the Grade II-listed Cheadle Royal Hospital continues to operate as a specialist mental health service, the former nurses’ accommodation - dating back to 1936 - has been vacant since the 1980s.
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