Understanding the Location & working with Stakeholders

It is important as part of the planning process that stakeholders are engaged and aware of the proposal, so that any impacts can be understood and where necessary mitigated.

We have been in dialogue with Highways England, High Speed 2 (HS2), Manchester Airport, National Trust, Natural England, and others to ensure compatibility with these landmarks and functions.

Matters for discussion included:

• access to and from the motorway
• alignment with HS2 proposals
• consideration of potential glint and glare from solar panels
• understanding and minimising potential for bird strikes
• considering potential impact on Dunham Massey, Tatton Park and Rostherne Mere

We began engaging with local stakeholders, including community and businesses representatives, in August 2020 and have continued this dialogue throughout design development. Further stakeholder meetings, including with the wider public, are taking place throughout July and August 2021.

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	Proposed Tatton Services
	Motorway
	A road
	HS2 Phase 2B route and safeguarding
	South & Greater Manchester urban areas
	Green Belt
	Tatton Park and Dunham Massey Estates
	Manchester Airport

Understanding the Environment

As part of identifying and designing the site we recognise, have taken and continue to take into consideration the surrounding environment and important factors such as:

• Landscape
• Heritage
• Ecology
• Flood Risk

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	Proposed Tatton Services
	LPA boundary
	Grade II* listed registered park and garden
	Area of Special County Value
	Heritage conservation areas
	Scheduled monument of Watch Hill Motte and Bailey
	Listed building
	Green Belt
	Sites of biological importance
	Rostherne Mere SSSI
	Rostherne Mere Ramsar
	Yarwoodheath Covert LWS
	Flood Zone 2
	Flood Zone 3
	River Bollin

Access to Tatton Services

A principle consideration is how the site is accessed to and from the motorway, so that travellers can conveniently take a break from their journey.

We have worked and provisionally agreed with Highways England that the existing junctions and infrastructure can provide access to the motorway service area (MSA). This avoids any new junctions directly onto the M56. Some modifications will be required for the Bowdon South roundabout and a dedicated A556 south and M56 west exit lane from the MSA.

This diagram shows access is planned to be directly via Bowdon Interchange or southern Bowdon roundabout through to Yarwoodheath Lane, which is a private access road into the MSA.

A shared use footway/cycleway is proposed alongside the new road to provide cycle connectivity between Yarwoodheath Lane and the Bowdon Roundabouts (connecting into Highways England improvement proposals). We are exploring cycle linkages with stakeholders responsible for connectivity to maintain wider linkages through Yardwoodheath Lane.

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	Planned access into site
	Planned access out of site

Understanding the Existing Site

To fully understand the site and the likely impact of the proposal, we have a specialist consultant team that have undertaken initial assessments and continue to assess the emerging proposals.

Details of the following key areas can be found by clicking on the relevant markers on the map:

• Highways
• Landscape
• Ecology
• Heritage
• Flood Risk
• Agriculture and Soils, Noise and Air Quality

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Site Layout

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It is important that the Masterplan meets both environmental and operational requirements. The site layout was developed in 6 key sequences.

1. The existing site features were considered. It is proposed that the main Farmhouse and avenue of trees are maintained as part of the Tatton Services scheme.


2. Appropriate access and circulation routes for different vehicles was determined.


3. It is proposed the site is moulded to incorporate landscape mounds and planting to shield and enclose the site, as well as ponds to assist with the successful drainage, increase biodiversity and create interest.


4. Zones, in the form of field enclosures, were then identified providing separate areas to provide parking for each vehicle type, as well as usable outdoor space for visitors.


5. Three key buildings are proposed: amenity building, fuel barn and hotel.


6. A pedestrian axis links the elements together.

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A New Farmstead

The MSA will consist of 3 buildings: a Farmshop and Kitchen (amenity building; comprising toilets, café, farm shop and tourist information), a Fuel Barn (comprising fuel, shop, drive-through and provision for HGV drivers) and a 100 bedroom hotel. They will be linked by a beautiful Kitchen Garden, a space for customers to relax and enjoy.

The height of the MSA buildings will reflect the heights of existing agricultural buildings on site, which will minimise the impact of the proposal from vantage points in the wider area.

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Buildings and spaces information labels

Landscaping, Water Management and Ecology

The proposed landscape strategy aims to integrate the MSA into the wider landscape. Through conserving and enhancing the local landscape character of the Bollin Valley and Cheshire countryside, including the retention of notable landscape features within the site.

Proposals consist of retained trees, hedgerows and open pasture with more significant areas of native woodland planting, wildflower meadow and wetlands. More formal landscape areas are proposed including a kitchen garden, farmyard and orchard.

Sustainable water management and ecological improvements are woven into the landscape approach. The water management proposals include a visible system of rain gardens, streams, open pools and field ditches.

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	Landscape information labels
	Water Management information labels
	Ecology information labels

Sustainability

Sustainability has been a consideration from the outset of the project. A specialist sustainability consultancy has identified a range of ways in which the sustainability of the MSA can be improved to achieve industry leading levels.

There are six key areas:

• low embodied carbon
• renewable energy
• smart mobility and future fuels (Electric Vehicle charging)
• water management
• increased local biodiversity
• reduced waste in operation

This is a time of transformation in the industry with the move from traditional fuels to electric and other future fuels and, hence, Tatton Services has been designed to embrace these changes as they take place over time.

info Click on the map markers to read more about the key areas in our sustainability design.

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Sustainability design information labels

Your Thoughts?

Thank you for taking the time to explore the proposed Tatton Services.

We hope that you will take the time to offer your thoughts, via the online form below, anytime up to Monday 23rd August 2021.

The initial consultation is now closed - but comments and suggestions are still welcome.

What happens next?

The Project Team will read and consider all responses and use them to help shape the proposals for Tatton Services. A planning application will then be submitted to Cheshire East Council.