Hundreds of residents living on a Crewe housing estate for two years with no planning permission will learn next week if their nightmare is finally over.

Countryside Partnerships was given permission to build the 263-home Coppenhall Place development on the former Bombardier site in 2018.

But, because the developer failed to deal with a condition relating to contaminated land the original planning consent was rendered void.

Countryside Partnerships was given permission to build the 263-home Coppenhall Place development on the former Bombardier site in 2018 (Ryan Parker).

An application was submitted to Cheshire East to seek regularisation of the development and went before the strategic planning board twice, in March 2023 and November 2023, to try and resolve the matter.

On both occasions planning officers recommended it be approved.

But councillors, who have been critical of the council's own planners and Countryside Partnerships throughout the whole fiasco, deferred the application because they still weren't happy the contaminated land concerns had been dealt with.

Next Wednesday (March 26), almost two years to the day the application was first brought back to the strategic planning board, it will be considered for the third time.

Again, the recommendation is for approval.

The planning officer's report says: "This application has been deferred on two previous occasions to consider matters of viability, use of the public open space and matters over contaminated land, with particular focus on how this has been addressed through the development of the site."

On Wednesday 26 March, almost two years to the day the Coppenhall Place application was first brought back to the strategic planning board, it will be considered for the third time (Ryan Parker).

In recommending approval, the report says: "It is considered that a landscape-led solution to the area of public open space is the appropriate way to treat this area following consultations with residents.

"With regards to garden areas, it is now considered that we have got to a point where a significant number of the properties have been satisfactorily treated, and environmental protection are happy with the works being undertaken, and that we have an agreed approach to dealing with the remaining properties through conditions."

The strategic planning board meeting takes place at 10am on Wednesday 26 March at Crewe Municipal Buildings.

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