Plans for new service station and hotel on M56 set to be approved

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Plans for a new motorway service off the M56 in Cheshire are set to be approved next week. Tatton Services, which owns Tebay Services in Cumbria, has applied to build a site on greenbelt land between junctions 7 and 8 of the motorway, which is located near Altrincham.

Alongside a service station, the plans also include a petrol station, a farm shop and a 100-bedroom hotel. The plans have been recommended for approval by Cheshire East Council and will go before the council’s strategic planning board next Wednesday (October 25).

However, a final decision would need to be referred to the secretary of state due to the scale of the plans. READ MORE: All change at the Stockport pub run by same family for 91 years READ MORE: The 'lovely' Greater Manchester park with stunning autumn scenery The services group, which is a 80/20 partnership between the Westmorland Family, and Tatton Estate, started life with Tebay Services on the M6 in 1972.

It also operates Gloucester Services on the M5 and Cairn Lodge Services on the M74 in Scotland. Last month, plans for the M56 scheme - which is set to include 65 car parking spaces, 58 lorry spaces and additional spots for coaches - received the backing of the highways department, which ruled that the "traffic and transport impacts" could be "satisfactorily assimilated into the highway network".