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Conservatives call for 670 MORE houses on Stockport Green Belt
by Lib Dem team on 19 September, 2017
This field in Woodford is just one area that will be concreted over under the latest plans.
Liberal Democrats have spoken out against Conservative proposals to build 670 MORE houses on Stockport’s Green Belt – on top of all the houses currently being proposed.
“We are already working hard to figure out where to build more than 1,000 houses a year over the next twenty years. The Lib Dems have opposed plans for thousands of those homes to be built on Green Belt land around Heald Green, Cheadle Hulme, Woodford and High Lane. These latest proposals are a further kick in the teeth for local residents from the Conservatives. When you add them onto the homes we already have to build, there is simply nowhere for these extra houses to go except Green Belt land.” said local councillor Iain Roberts.
The latest figures can be found in the Government’s Planning for Homes consultation, announced last week. The Conservative proposal will require Stockport to build new 1,078 homes a year for the next ten years – the current figure is 1,011.
The Lib Dems are calling for the homes we badly need to be built on brownfield sites first – especially around Stockport station and near other transport hubs. We need more affordable and social housing too.
“The Conservative’s claim to want to protect out Green Belt have been exposed.” said Councillor Iain Roberts. “If they get their way, we’ll see even more houses build on Stockport’s green spaces. We need to build all we can on brownfield sites first, and only then look at the Green Belt. This Conservative proposal makes that approach all but impossible.”
8 Comments
There’s a multitude of buildings in Stockport which are empty and can be converted to housing stock but of course there’s less money in that for developers.
Time to
Expose what links there are between the Tories and development companies
What about all those you allowed in Woodford and especially the Barnes hospital site – more pollution and congestion for Cheadle and Gatley residents.
What about the links between the Libdems and
development companies?
Can you tell us where these figures come from?
Isn’t this a consultation? The survey response is at
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/planningforhomes
Also on the Barnes site – I go up the A34 frequently and I have noticed an increase (already) in the traffic turning right into the estate. This right turn is just past the motorway and over the brow of an incline and in my mind a potential hazard – particularly if queues start to form.
Barnes is another planning disaster waiting to happen – as nice as it is. Improved public transport (and access to it) is what is needed – Metro, railway. Cancel the HS scheme and put it into regional non-road transport.
I’m not a NIMBY. I think new developments in the area are good, but infrastructure first!
Unfortunately these houses are required but a sensible arrangement needs to be struck with the developers in order to ensure that infrastructure is provided.
Barnes development is a great development in itself but there has been a failure by the council/politicians to sort out the infrastructure as part of the development before agreement is given. I agree with previous comments about the congestion this development will cause.
Planning is much more than finding space to build houses!
It is providing resources to those properties(water/sewage/power etc.) and to the inhabitants travel to/from jobs/shops/recreation spaces but there is also the wider effects on air & noise pollution and deterioration of the environment for existing surrounding populations.
It is not a planning to allow money-making to overtake the above needs – that is driven by greed and/or dictatorship.