The plan to bulldoze Jehovah's Witnesses building and youth club for 'high-quality' homes

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A plan to demolish a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses to make way for four new homes in Trafford has been submitted. The four ‘high-quality’ homes will take shape at the site on Wellington Road in Timperley, if the council gives planning permission.

They will be in a pair of five-bedroom semi-detached properties parallel to adjacent homes on Brook Close. A design and access statement submitted on behalf of the applicant Amaan Chohan, of PIC Brook Close Ltd, said of the plan: “This is an opportunity to provide high quality housing in an attractive location with schools, local amenities and major transport links to Manchester city centre in close proximity. READ MORE: 'All you can hear at the school at night is effing and the c word...

and it looks like Blackpool Illuminations' READ MORE: The latest Covid figures for Greater Manchester after rise in illness “The current building on the site is occupied by a hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses and a youth club.

Despite their contribution to the local community, this use isn’t justified in a site of such a large scale and there for there is a huge opportunity to reflect the objectives within the Trafford Local Plan [which sets out housing strategy in the borough].” The four houses in the development are all 2.5 storeys high, with ground, first and second floors, says architect CODA Bespoke. “The house types benefit from a clear aesthetic informed by the Victorian villas in the area, including features such as forward-facing gables, stone linets and door surround and canted bay windows,” the statement says.