The Lib Dem team want you to have your say on Stockport’s green places and spaces over the next 20 years.

Stockport is drawing up its Local Plan. There are five different topics and we’ll be looking at one each week. The Lib Dems on Stockport Council will be putting our submission in and we want to include your views. Of course, you can also have your say directly.

The questions the Council wants to answer on homes are:

1. What types of open space should we provide for the growing population and how should we make use of the existing spaces?
2. How can the council encourage the redevelopment of brownfield land, rather than green spaces, to help provide enough housing and jobs?
3. If the current supply of land within the urban area is not sufficient to meet need, what land should be used for new homes and places to work? If you don’t think that Green Belt should be used, what alternative would you suggest and why?
4. Do you have any other comments about the various types of green space and the Green Belt in Stockport?

To help, we’ve included the Council’s briefing paper on green spaces – part 1 and part 2.  It’s 9 pages long and worth a quick read before you give your answers.

Portrait of the Cheadle Area

Over the next few weeks Stockport Council is consulting on its Local Plan. This is the first of three sets of consultations on the plan, and its important. It will shape our borough for the next twenty years: what our town and village centres look like, what jobs we have, where people live, our health, parks, green spaces and more.

You can read all the documents and have your say on any part of it here.