Peel Land secures consent for 282 homes next to RHS Garden Bridgewater

This is sad. Beautiful green belt, often with lots of deer and other wildlife now being built on. The change in Boothstown has been crazy. Once a sleepy and quiet village, now a gridlocked little town.

I work at RHS and will be buying one and walking to work!

I knew when Peel offered the land to the RHS at a very good price for the lease that would open the door for Peel to build on the adjacent land. Why do I say that is simple the RHS would put in the infrastructure ie new road, utilities etc so that Peel at a later date would be able to use this to build houses. Fortunately I moved from facing the entrance on Leigh Road because I didn’t want to face the disruption similar to when the RHS did their build. This will lead to total gridlock down Leigh Road to the motorway. The councillors should be ashamed of themselves for bending the knee to Peel.

Awful, destroying greenbelt to build poor quality housing.

So they didn’t listen to their electorate.

More traffic near John Gilbert roundabouts. Already a major concern? Carnage.

Leigh road is gridlocked already for most of the week and especially at weekends. What’s going to happen when there’s another 400 to 500 cars trying to use the same road. Absolute joke.

This is the most disgusting development ever. Peel holdings won’t be happy until the whole city is concrete. We don’t have dentists, school numbers are low, traffic is high and doctors waiting times are through the roof. A very poor council that is destroying our local environments.

Karen L. That’s typical of narrow minded people. Forget the land and buy a house. Just to make it easier for you to get to work. What about all the people who don’t work at the RHS. There the ones who have to sit in traffic every morning for up to an hour or more just to get to the motorway.

Oh look – more pointed-roof brick houses designed by architects with zero imagination.
Surely there must be someone in the UK who can come up with something imaginative for a change

Wow, absolutely crazy. I haven’t gone to work using that route in years and I remember always being stuck in traffic. What does the millionaires think about this? Absolutely disgusting. Why is this even a thing-Places for Everyone?? Get rid of it as we will no longer have greener left for next generations!!

Absolutely shocking, peel and salford council should be ashamed, this is the last bit of land in the area that supports the local wildlife. Where can the wildlife go now? It’s trapped? When walking on the land barn owls can be seen hunting, bats, common buzzards, kestrals, deer plus all the insects, plants and tree’s. This is an area that supports local people to get out in nature, which supports peoples well being all soon to be bulldozed. What an absolute disgrace.

I thought there were huge concerns about the quailty of air in the area. I know Caz was cancelled (after great expense) to be replaced by other measures. Not sure how increasing the number of houses by hundreds and therefore the number of cars by hundreds is going to help?

Once again Salford City Council totally ignore the wishes of the people who pay their wages and side with Peel Holdings.

Most of the people complaining about this live in houses built on green field / green belt land. Were they complaining about the RHS being built and positively affecting their house prices???

Peel yet again delivering chaos which the locals will have to live with perpetually. Just like they’re doing at Over Hulton and Westhoughton.

Everyone just stop voting Labour. Once again Salford council sold us out. Why can’t they build houses on the green in front of Swinton town hall it’s on a great bus route and people can get books from the library in The Lancastrian hall. Oh yeah that’s been empty for years and that’s in front of there eyes. So sad Salford council are destroying the green belt ???

I had a quick read through the D&A yesterday (because at first reading the article filled me with disdain). The proposed plans look really nice, there’s attention to detail in keeping the canal opened up to green space and ecology and emphasising the brook within the plot. All that being said, far too many green fields are being lost in this part of the region to housing estates. The guided busway route green space has now all but gone (foundation footings pretty much toe to toe with the cemetery at this rate). If it cannot be avoided that green fields need to go, then money should be being pumped into our struggling ecology sites like no tomorrow – substantial planting to extend woodlands, money invested in restoring rivers and waterways and making sure what little green space we have is healthy.

Don’t vote for Reform and Labour… Better vote for Green 💚 it more sensible than others 👍🏻

An absolute disgrace to let more housing be built in an area that already has far too much traffic. Salford Council are an absolute disgrace.

This land was identified in the places for everyone strategy therefore it is not greenbelt.

Can’t think of a local authority in the NorthWest that has a stronger track record of delivering new and affordable on brownfield land than Salford, but the idea you can regenerate your urban areas and not create downstream demand for more suburban family housing is either fanciful or cynical.

And this is what a Labour government gets you. Destruction of greenbelt and wildlife habitats, gridlocked communities, poor quality housing whilst totally ignoring the electorate. Labours in bed with the developers and always will be. Vote them out come the next election unless Burnham does what he says he’s going to do and listens to the electorate.

Places for everyone allocates sites based on housing need; traffic surveys take place to account for the highways impact of the new development; ecological surveys ensure that wildlife is protected and biodiversity net gain improves the existing biodiversity on the site. S106 agreements ensure the council have more funding for local infrastructure like schools and health services. These developments don’t happen without thought and careful planning, if the people who raised these concerns looked into what the planning system did to offset their concerns maybe there wouldn’t be so much negativity.

282 houses at this location and the 320 houses at hazlehurst Farm on the other side of worsley will put upto 1200 extra cars on worsley roundabout and the m60 junction which already exceeds the junction capacity. This will lead to families leaving the area. Terrible planning really can’t see how these schemes got through, well actually I can see, greed and money over whats right for the area,

Salford Council are looking at one thing – money and regular council tax. Very sad as it gonna be very busy now with traffic esp. at those Worsley roundabouts

Where’s the doctors & dentist, so 282 × this by 2-4-6 per household that a lot of people who all will need to use these facilities at some point, and Salford Royal is all ready a joke!!.

How can you apply

Terrible desision by Peel and local government. Will not be long before there will be no green land between Manchester and Liverpool. Greed is the driver by Peel and LA.

Brilliant news. More investment in our city. More tradesmen and women kept in work. This will be a very popular development.

Isn’t it odd that most of those in favour haven’t the guts to post openly.

Continuing to pave paradise.

What a shame it’s another blot on the landscape. Unfortunately the wildlife and greenspaces are been used for prestige houses not affordable for most. And again Salford are only interested in getting money council taxes. Never mind the traffic problems that already exist. We have all new builds in the immediate area amounting to at least 5,000 new builds , Ellenbrook ,Walkden , Mosley common, having every green space used for housing. Not cheaper council houses, which we all agree is desperately needed. Soon it will be Farmland which we do need as well for food production. I realise that this is not part of this. But Astley have got enormous warehouses placed right on top of residents. I feel like we are being put last in the pecking order of what happens on the greenbelt I am absolutely disgusted.