COUNCILLORS are hoping to block plans to build 66 new homes which they fear would ‘destroy Frodsham’s historic landscape’.
Developers have submitted plans to transform 2.8 acres of vacant land behind Main Street, running from Chapelfields to Moor Lane, into the housing estate also containing one four-storey property.
But Frodsham Town Council is planning to oppose the development which they say would destroy the historic town centre and cause traffic chaos in the already packed main high street.
This is the second time that Widnes-based developer Morbaine have proposed the plans, after failing to receive permission from Vale Royal Borough Council in 2004 after failing to sign a section 106 agreement.
Last time the application was submitted town councillors strongly opposed to the plans, and on Monday (August 22) councillors held an Extraordinary Meeting to discuss the new application which met similarly strong objections.
Cllr Lynn Riley said: “When the scheme was originally submitted the dynamics of Frodsham were very different in terms of affordable housing, but I don’t feel we are in an under-supply situation at the moment.
“With the wind farm scheme still hanging over us, we may be derelict in our duty to let people live so close to these proposed turbines.”
It was reported that residents at Ashley Court and Frodsham Care Home in Chapelfields were ‘very worried’ about the proposal, which councillors considered to be ‘overdevelopment.’
Other objections registered by councillors included the loss of ancient boundary marker stones on the development site, destroying the ‘historic pattern and views into and out of the conservation area’.
Mayor Andrew Dawson said he had exercised his right as a borough councillor to ‘call in’ the application to be determined by planners.
