Offerton quarry residential plan moves forward 

Marple Road is often gridlocked either end, both getting into/out of Marple and getting into/out of Stockport. The road infrstaructure cannot support this development without changes.

Hey anonymous you do realise that this isn’t some undeveloped greenfield site it’s got a lot of heavy traffic already going to and from it and all that will be removed if this goes ahead – yay! Plenty of good things can come out of this and it’s exactly the sort of site and development the Council ought to get behind.

What changes Anonymous? From a transport perspective I’ve seen worse sites. Regular buses, shops and schools within walking distance, lots of other houses nearby. Stockport needs housing sites, this seems a reasonable infill location.

Yes that would be very good to have more homes but what the council need to do is that all planning projects going on in stockport like stockport college needs to be done not just left so kids can get in

Be it brownfield or greenfield, at this point you can guarantee that the comments on any PNW article about any form of residential development will be full of the usual negative comments moaning about traffic, doctors surgeries and school places. The NIMBYs have really been found out at this point, objecting just as vehemently to brownfield developments whilst screaming that our precious Green Belt should be protected.

This site needed to be retained to provide the option of the Bredbury Hazel Grove road link. It’s a poor area transport-wise, so unless this is coupled with some major transport reworkings, I’m struggling to get behind it.

Why would the heavy traffic be removed? do you mean going into / out of offerton sand and gravel because that’s not much, and I think they’re more concerned with numbers of vehicles not size of them. If it has to go somewhere, better here than other places. I’ve been on that road too and travel is at a snails pace whether your public transport or not. But they’re entitled to their opinion, even if the last comment on this page doesn’t think they should be.

So 172 homes, perhaps 2 cars per household filtering onto roads that are already extremely busy! It makes no sense, Already the Battersby housing site which is still in process has created a massive amount of traffic with more still when the site is finished & more residents move in, Where’s the end to this filling every bit of available space & clogging up the roads ?

Traffic is already horrific in this area not to mention the schools in the area and health facilities do not have the capacity to absorb the additional needs that this proposal would bring. Nor the public transport infrastructure either it’s ludicrous

You’d think that replacing a quarry – with all the associated noise and heavy vehicles – with houses would be seen as a positive. Nope, not in Stockport (the home of the NIMBY brigade).

If you look at the application documents you’ll see this proposal doesn’t affect the link road the route of which has been safeguarded in their proposals. Anyway hasn’t the Council shelved the proposals to build the link road? Always amazes me how people are so negative without looking at the positives of schemes like this!

Perhaps the Council should be thinking of improving the flow of traffic on the Marple Road before allowing more housing to add extra traffic to an already highly congested area.

Why?????? The traffic is horrendous along from Stockport to Marple etc, let’s hope the council realise this is a no go