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Have your say on building on the greenbelt
by Lib Dem Team on 26 October, 2016
The eight week consultation on the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework – the proposals on where we are going to build hundreds of thousands of new homes across GM over the next 20 years – opens on Monday 31st October 2016.
Please make sure you have your say.
The consultation should appear here on Monday 31st October.
The Government has said that Stockport has to build around a thousand new homes every year for the next twenty years and this plan is the Greater Manchester Combined Authority first attempt to say where they should all go.
The Liberal Democrats believe our borough is in danger of becoming a target for developers and get-rich-quick land owners. The plan put forward by the ten Greater Manchester local authorities details a number of locations across the conurbation where new housing development could take place.
Although no definitive decisions have been made, the Lib Dem team is concerned that Stockport is already earmarked to take more than its fair share of new housing. When a call for potential sites was made earlier in the year the Greater Manchester Combined Authority reported that, of 640 sites identified across the city region, fully 20% (128) were in the Stockport borough – including several in the Green Belt.
Make sure you have your say.
7 Comments
Hopefully the same planners that OK’d the by-pass, Sainsbury/John Lewis, Cheadle Royal development AND Tesco etc at Hanforth Dean will be consulted, so we can all be sure of free moving traffic, no pollution and plenty of space for bicycles……..
We must see the plan for the infrastructure before any of this goes ahead – roads, public transport, business premises, medical staff, dentists, surgeries, hospitals and schools for a start. This is a classic call for —- show us the money.
Stockport Council Planning department need to query. All submissions on infrastructure from United Utilities as the common feature in all these proposed areas is close proximity of streams, tributaries to Micker Brook which already have 11 combined sewer overflows discharging raw sewerage on heavy rainfall. Building of this intensity will create further pollution since these developments will be connected to an aged infrastructure of sewers unable to cope now. Planners need to insist there’s no possibility of condoms sanitary products etc appearing in these streams no doubt culverted by necessity and the waterways thus used as alternative sewer system. EA are fully aware as they’ve attended meetings at Mary Robinsons office and seen evidence of filth deposits in brook, which over 6 months from complaint remain in situ while UU and EA argue who is responsible. Meantime no viable screen on outlets results in regular discharges. Not acceptable in 2016 and serious health hazards as culverts will potentially run close to/under properties from research experience. Infrastructure has to come first. Not some S106 undertaking for public transport which predictably in this area now has just 2 free buses a week going to Handforth Dean, any benefits of A34 bypass and Airport Relief road will be negated as each property draws in at least one vehicle. Stockport may have a large allocation of proposed new builds as developers anticipate nil resistance? Once a property has been flooded insurance is hard and expensive to obtain. A growing DG5 register, mortgage for closures in SK8 due to uninsurability and filth appearing isn’t going to enhance the area whatsoever.
I agree with the inference in Robert Cohen’s response. That is, does planning law ever take into consideration the well being of the existing population?
I would suggest it doesn’t, all the indications are that monetary concerns are the prime mover. It certainly doesn’t take into account a crumbling infrastructure which the council cannot maintain, congested roads and the gradual erosion of the facilities which once made Cheadle and surrounds an attractive place to live.
More housing covering green belt land is only going to make this situation much worse.
There are still many empty buildings in Stockport that are ripe for conversion to housing and the transport links required are already in place. Not sure how the government can say that SMBC will need to build 1000 homes for the next 20 years, their thinking doesn’t usually go beyond next month!!
Who profits from these changes? Who owns the land and building firms? What is lost in each area of green belt destroyed? Existing residents in these areas are going to suffer serious consequences in air & noise pollution, transport congestion problems, real crime increase (not just statistics), loss of recreational and wild life space (this does deteriorate local humans) and lose monetary value as a consequence. Are they going to be recompensed year by year? We live on an island diminishing in size due to rising sea levels!!!
I am trying to have my say, but not finding this easy to follow. Having registered, I have been directed to a 242 page document to read before I have my say!
What am I doing wrong?