Land Studio helping transform derelict pub into housing

We are delighted to be part of a project team working on the transformation of a derelict pub and coach house on the outskirts of Altrincham, near Manchester into affordable housing.

The Stamford Arms Pub in Little Bollington is a mock-Tudor Edwardian building which had been empty since the pub shut down in 2012.

Almost 18 months in the making, the proposals for this sensitively located heritage site within the Cheshire green belt will see the restoration of the former public house into nine affordable apartments. The stable block and coach houses will be converted and restored into five mews cottages and there will be four new bespoke family houses on the former car park – all designed by award-winning Altrincham based Project 3 Architects.

Local interest in the scheme has been high which has meant that this was no standard planning application. Suggestions and feedback have been welcomed and have significantly informed the design development.

As part of the planning application, we worked with Novo Property Group to minimise any impact on the green belt site’s existing established trees and hedgerows.

Green Belt is one of the highest levels of designation land can be given. We carried out a detailed Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment to identify the predicted impacts of the proposed scheme on the environment from twelve possible viewpoint locations in both summer and winter.

We also demonstrated how the new development could be an improvement on the existing derelict site and how new more appropriate planting would help have a positive impact on the surrounding landscape character, the North Cheshire Green Belt and nearby Dunham Massey, itself a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Once complete, all nine apartments in the main refurbished pub building are going to be available to buy as shared ownership products. Importantly, these apartments will be offered to Little Bollington residents first.

We’re proud that the site has received planning permission and work will soon be underway to restore the Stamford Arms buildings for a sustainable future.