CONTENTIOUS plans to build 248 homes have been approved, but proposals for 375 more homes elsewhere in the same town have been delayed.
An application to build on the former Foden factory site in Sandbach was approved by Cheshire East Council yesterday, Thirty per cent of the homes are earmarked for affordable housing.
Plans to be build a further 375 homes at the site of Albion Inorganic Chemicals, in Booth Lane, are also expected to be approved.
Planning officers had recommended the plans for approval at yesterday's meeting, but the application has been deferred until next month because of councillors' concerns about the safety of the former chemical site and the applicant's plans to allow only eight per cent of affordable housing.
The application to build on the Foden's Moss Lane site has been met with objection from residents and Sandbach Town Council, who argue the road system is inadequate to cope with the increase in cars.
The site will be split in half with two separate entrances in Moss Lane and traffic lights will be installed at the junction between London Road and Station Road.
Thirty letters of objection were received by Cheshire East Council, including an objection from Moss Lane resident Richard Barnes.
He stated: "London Road is already hazardous because of the restricted view.
"I think this developmental is impractical and I don't think the infrastructure will take it."
Garage owner Mike Palin currently uses Moss Lane to park cars for his business.
Now he is worried that due to an expected increase in traffic the council may introduce double yellow lines along the road which will affect him.
The 47-year-old, who lives in Wistaston, said: "All they're doing is putting up some traffic lights. I appreciate things have to go ahead but it's the knock on effect it'll have.
"If they introduce double yellow lines I'll have to park the cars down the lane which will just move the problem on."
Outline planning permission was passed in 2009 for the construction of 250 homes and an 80 bed care home.
And resident Frank Noton, aged 66 from Moss Lane, is disappointed the care home plans will not go ahead.
He said: "We're an ageing population and I don't know why we're not building sheltered housing."
Pam Flower, aged 62 of Moss Lane, added: "The hundreds of new houses are turning this village into a new town. We bought this house because of the fields around it but it's going to be nothing but a rat run."
The plans on whether to approve the 375 homes in Booth Lane are now expected to be discussed at the next strategic planning committee, scheduled for March 9.
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