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Mark Hunter campaigns against Tory Traffic Chaos

by Lib Dem team on 23 October, 2014

Mark Hunter’s campaign to get Tory-run Cheshire East Council to think again about building 1,800 houses on a greenbelt field near Handforth is picking up speed. The Lib Dems are concerned that building so many houses in one site right on the Stockport border will see traffic chaos as the cars flood down the A34 towards Manchester, then back again in the evening.

More houses are needed in Cheshire as well as Stockport, but Cheshire Tories have no plan to deal with the increased traffic. Greenbelt developments should be a last resort: before proposing building of this scale on the greenbelt, councils should have looked at all other options first. We don’t think that’s happened in Cheshire East.

Mark has written to the inspector currently examining Cheshire East’s plans. The inspector has raised a number of issues with the plans, and we are waiting to see whether the Conservatives will have to go back to the drawing board.

As the letter from the Inspector below shows, he is considering whether to halt his inspection of the Tory plan after hearing the concerns raised from Mark Hunter and others – we should know in the next few weeks.

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  1. Alan Gent says:

    Sounds like common sense may be rearing its head?

  2. Bruce Thwaite says:

    Wait until the new bypass is built – it will get even worse.

  3. David Johnson says:

    Planning should be like technical design – all the effects should be considered before launching a product that can affect the well-being and safety of its users and other humans. Designing and building should be no different! Simply using green space because it is there is dictatorship. So much for claiming to be a democratic and caring society.

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