EXTRAORDINARY plans to create a remarkable family home with an underground gallery for a collection of 50 private cars can be revealed.

Developers are looking to build the home on the vacant Stretton Airfield site close to the M56.

If approved the home would feature six bedrooms. a library, swimming pool and gym.

The highlight of the design would be the car gallery for the client's 'extensive' private car collection – it would be largely underground in the basement but includes a 360 degree viewing platform with views as far as the Peak District and the surrounding Cheshire countryside.

The land, which has been empty since the early 2000s, still features the runway from when it was used as HMS Blackcap for 16 years from the 1940s when it was home to 41 different naval air squadrons.

The site was HMS Blackcap

But it stands in the green belt so has been a difficult plot to build on.

The plans submitted to Warrington Borough Council include a vision for an open plan living, dining and kitchen area, guest bedroom, study, children's play room, six en-suite bedrooms and a rooftop viewing area.

The car gallery

One of the biggest areas of the development would be a leisure space which would include a private swimming pool and gym.

The planning application states: "The original brief evolved from the client’s desire to create a contemporary family home within the setting

of an historical airfield.

"The home would also need to accommodate the client’s extensive private car collection.

"Following a number of initial design studies and meetings between the client, design team and the local authority a brief emerged and developed."

Access to the land would be from Crowley Lane.

Residents can comment now on the application before Warrington Borough Council makes a decision in the new year.