New HQ For Wilmslow's Largest Employer?

Plans to allow Wilmslow's largest employer to build a new headquarters in the town will be decided by the Strategic Planning Committee next week.

Royal London has applied to build a new office development on a site to the east of their existing campus which is located within the Cheshire Green Belt.

The scheme, which will include additional car parking, improved vehicle access, landscaping, and new cycle routes, is entirely within the Green Belt, where there is a presumption against inappropriate development.

The applicant has put forward what it considers to be special circumstances; namely that the development would ensure the retention of 960 jobs in Wilmslow, as well as the provision of an additional 500 to 600 jobs.

They also point out that the proposal will see the widening of Alderley Road in a southerly direction, which will help to ease an existing highways issue.

These factors mean that the Strategic Planning Committee is recommended to approve the planning application because:

"[The] adverse effects of the scheme are significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the benefits and mitigation against these adverse impacts can be achieved through submission of further information as part of the conditions or as part of the reserved matters application."

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