Bloor progresses plans for up to 700 homes in Stockport Green Belt

Hope this becomes a regular entertainment feature on this site, Stockport greenbelt getting salami sliced away because they didn’t join PfE.

The council have previously said they want a new station with park and ride at Stanley Green. If they’re still saying that then this should be double if not triple the number of homes.

The first of many green belt planning applications for Stockport to deal with when the new NPPF is published in the New Year. That decision to come out of Places for Everyone with no Local Plan in place will now look incredibly foolhardy: short-sighted political leadership.

The Council wanting a new station and a park & ride – best of luck trying to get that out of any scheme!! Another example, if true of “dreamers” in Local Government.

Rich X yes. They’re going to have a really difficult time defending an Appeal in the non-strategic world they’ve chosen to live in. High content of affordable housing a good bargaining point, local centre, all the things that come up every time Green Belt is mentioned. Going to have a really hard job meeting the extra homes target they’ve now got and when that comes to an Inspector or Ms Rayner we already know what the outcome is. Let the entertainment begin.

Green belt is not for building on, go and build on brown sites and stop being lazy and greedy
Once you build on green sites they are gone for ever. We prefer 84 acres of green belt not 20 acres of green space. This is totally Urban sprawl and we don’t genuinely need all these unsightly developments

You reap what you sow! The Lib Dems cynical politically motivated decision to pull out of the GM wide Places for Everyone and their failure to create a local plan has put
Green Belt in the Borough at great risk. I hope the electorate of Stockport take note.

Before commentators get too excited this was a proposed allocation for Green Belt release in GMSF (as it was still called before Stockport pulled out) anyway.

If the NIMBY’s – and aII the others who constantIy spout nonsense about the ‘green beIt’ had to deaI with HomeIessness and the affect it has on peopIes Iives on a daiIy basis as one of the organisations where I sit on the Board does thye may take a more pragmatic view. Good Iuck to BIoor with this appIication which seems to me to tick aII the boxes for creating much needed affordabIe homes whiIst retaining ampIe ‘green’ space.

When the developer is thinking to build more houses here in Gatley, have they thought of the fundamental infrastructure like transportation, schools, supermarkets etc to support several hundred families on top of those who are living here? In Gatley there are only trains and buses and most people drives and with a huge housing estates here I can tell that the traffic will become awful. Gatley golf park is a landmark here for people to walk around with their dogs and they need to ensure that this will not be impacted in our community.

Using greenbelt land for huge developments should not be allowed .Because of the complex building regulations to ensure that all new homes are energy efficient it is not possible to build what are categorised as affordable houses. If these houses are paid for by the Council they will probably never recover their investment costs if they have to borrow the money from private finance.
Councils can raise money if they continue with right to buy for tenants.

Another station between Handforth and Cheadle Hulme is just not practical, it would be more like tram stops, not much room for long haul trains. More local buses on the local roads instead of express to the airport up the link road would much better serve the whole area!

The current surrounding roads,access points etc is totally inadequate and cannot support the existing housing and the traffic it generates , and the proposed development of 600//700 homes should not be passed. There are plenty of grey sites available to be developed, developers choose to ignore these due to cost of clearing and cleaning grey sites, they
preferred to carve up green areas, increase noise pollution, kill off our ever decreasing wild life and fell our trees , increasing co2 gereated by airports and motorway, bypass and increasing traffic on surrounding area. Developers are only interested in making money, and the private members of the golf club who own the land, claiming up £100,000 compensation. Please reject planning.. SAVE OUR GREEN BELT. PLEASE

This is in addition to 76 further up Wilmslow Road and a further 159 off Stanley Road. Developers acknowledge no school places and will have to commission extra secondary places as oversubscribed already. This shouldn’t be allowed without school places and health facilities.

I absolutely am against any further development at this site. This company have totally ruined this area with this development. We need to have some green space left in Heald Green. There are plenty of other areas that can be either developed or redeveloped is Stockport without ruining this area any further. It’s an absolute disgrace this development was allowed to go ahead in the first place.

Traffic, health services , schools and more are already at breaking point

I am appalled that more green belt land is to be built on.

The roads around the A34, Cheadle Hulme, Heald Green and Bramhall are very, very congested. Will there be school provision, Doctor’s surgery and Dentist surgeries also built along with Teachers, Doctotrs and Dentists?

Another potential destruction of our very finite countryside to be replaced by soulless housing estates…No more…needs to stop

Enough is enough!! Stop overloading the area , too many cars on the road now!! Extremely angry 😡

We don’t need anymore new homes. It is time we utilised derelict buildings and not take anymore green space away. Not to mention the lack of infrastructure that will not be considered!

I come for the news, but I stay for the comments ……priceless

This is another decision made by the Labour/Liberal Council. Why not build on brown site? The impact of more traffic on an already congested roads system stupid. Also it is necessary for the mental health of residents to keep some green belt. The air here is polluted already by the airport as well as the huge amount of cars using the roads and motorways.
Another very bad decision..

Veronica Leech – Labour are not in power in Stockport. The Liberal Democrats are in power and made the crazy decisions to pull out of the GMSF which put development pressure on the Greenbelt, nothing to do with Labour.

This proposed development means that there will be no open green space between Heald Green and Cheadle Hulme, an area which has already lost green space to superstores and a bypass. Soon, there will be no open spaces on the west side of Stockport. The proposed housing development will put undue pressure on the local infrastructure and will probably need a bypass to the bypass, for which there will not be room.

Yet another example of the green belt land being used for building. Why do we have a green belt at all when it is meaningless? Houses have just been built in Heald Green already on Wilmslow Road. I attended the meetings in the run up to the foregone conclusion. Health care staff were on hand to tell everyone the NHS is not at breaking point, it is already broken. It is difficult enough trying to get Doctors/Dental appointments without extra overcrowding on top of the existing overcrowding. The traffic in the area is too busy. We live in a small country & it is full. The sooner this reality is recognised the better. Everyone at the meeting to discuss the future recent development was told Heald Green would be closed thereafter. Obviously this is a lie. Why else put forward yet another plan to build expensive homes that people struggle to afford? I don’t know why people bother to vote, clearly the voter is not listened to. Treating people with contempt will alienate them further.