Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
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by Lib Dem team on 30 April, 2010
Following the failure of the Tatton’s current owners to get their plans (for a convenience store and care home) approved, the site is up for sale.
As before, the Lib Dem Council is working hard behind the scenes to get a positive outcome and I’ll report back when I’ve something firm to report.
12 Comments
A proper result for the status quo !(Not). Given the present economic climate, the xenophobic opposition to anything that is’nt a ‘community building’ or boutique market stalls and cafes developers will be falling over themselves to purcahse the site. We will still be discussing the same story in five years time (I wager)
I came on here to post, but there is no need except to say that I agree 100% with Mike (the previous poster)
We have been badly let down by the failure of our councillors to encourage the application.
Can only agree with Mike & Phil. And let us hope that, next time a proposal is put forward, our councillors work with whoever might then be the owner to encourage the development forward.
Anyone for a 24 hour lap-dancing club?
The last post sums it up – anything for MONEY. Isn’t that why the UK along with the rest of the World is in a financial melt down? The councillors are doing their duty in seeking the community interests.
If anyone wrote a book on this I reckon it would rival War and Peace (in volume not in content)
To avoid another 3,500 days of dissembling and festering why dont the council give us an idea of just what would be acceptable to the planning beurocrats who make these decisions.
I can imagine the attendees at these meetings:-
Joe Smith, March Hare, Mad Hatter, Sue Make-no-decision, Billy wonder …
The world changes and moves on leaving Gatley behind.Old age is as much about hardening of the ideas as the arteries.I bet the average age of the reactionary mob who want to keep the Tatton eyesore is not eighteen.
Audrey Butler (seventy-five and a quarter)H
People didn’t want a pub or bar going into the building so it was pulled down, now they don’t want a retail unit or care home for the elderly. What do they want? A housing development or a modern block of flats because that is what is most likely going to happen now and the only people to get any benefit from it will be the developers and the councill who will probably get a nice back hander. People need to remember this is Gatley not Monaco and change has to happen or the site will sit empty until houses and more urban sprawl are built on it. I would much rather a retail unit was built on the site providing jobs for locals and giving a little competiton to the two coopperatives in the village!!
How sad that the Tatton site has become such an eyesore in the village. The knock on effect of this is obvious, people considering buying property here are bound to be put off by the sad site of this once popular venue. Realistically in todays economic climate a developer is not going to be rushing to buy this site and we probably have years more to wait until something happens. Its important that any development is not one which encourages any more antisocial behaviour being attracted to Gatley, but housing or retail should be encouraged. Was it the best decision of the council to reject the last proposal? I’m not convinced.
the council should be congratulated for refusing the last planning application. the plans were totally unsuitable for the site and would have led to more cars parked on local roads, more congestion on gatley road. I don’t believe a residential/care home is right for the site, after all, one recently shut down more or less next door. I’m all for the site being developed, but only if it’s in keeping with the area, and suitable for the size of the land available. And for those who want competition for the co-op stores, have you seen the prices in the tesco express in cheadle? lot’s of them are dearer than normal tesco supermarkets!
Yep, Gatley – that place with the decrepit old cinema as seen by people passing through on the A560. I feel sorry for the likes of the elderly lady (85 she said) who I was talking to in the doctors a few months back. She doesn’t drive and has no choice but to use the Co-op monopoly for all her shopping. She’s not alone.
While it is the council’s duty to listen to local opinion and prevent any development that will have an adverse effect on the quality of life in Gatley, this saga has become absurd. As Garry asks “what do they want?”.
As long as the traffic and parking issues are handled properly, what harm would come from a development that might include residential and retail?
I can’t see how the argument about a new retail outlet affecting other Gatley traders stands up. If any outlets are potentially threatened they would be the two Co-op stores which, frankly, are part of a big enough organisation to fend for itself in the face of competition.
I could understand if the battle were to retain something valuable on the former Tatton site. But for it to remain derelict indefinitely because of local intransigence does no favours to Gatley’s future.
Interesting that 9 of the 11 postings do not support the theory (as propounded by Councillor Jones and others) that there was overwhelming opposition to the last proposal.
The reactionaries should take heed that in Twickenham, residents pushed for a Farmers Market or Marks & Spencer to take over the vacated Woolworths store – they ended up with a POUNDLAND !!