Stockport lines up mammoth 4,000-home regen opportunity

Will you be putting a good infrastructure in with all these new properties . The schools, doctors , dentists.

The worst thing possible is employ experienced consultants. They all have different ideas about what is needed and as a consequence make a mess of it. Ignore overpaid useless consultants and ask the public what they want

Where are the extre GP Practices, and Schools, Hospitals, Police, Prisons, extra Public transport ect,ect. How can we cope with the extra Thousands of People pouring into Stockport, Public Services will fail us, very little thorough has been given to the above, think about it,?????

More apartments I suppose what about filling the empty shops in merseyway and are you providing more car parks .

4,000 homes in this location. What are you building, 1,000 foot sky scrapers?!

Will you be building homes for renters and those unable to get a mortgage

Again my question is will there be doctors etc for all this huge intake of families This is never mentioned

So you think that asking a consultant will get you less opinions than asking the public…

That’s a lot more cars in one small area

Beggars belief! What about all the businesses that will be displaced, in a borough that has a not fit for purpose employment land supply?

Don’t we have to wait see some plans before we complain about the plans!?

Every time there’s mention of building in Stockport it’s the same few complaints. This could be part of the solution though. It’s not the council’s job to fill the shops. More residents within walking distance will encourage businesses to fill them. GP practices are usually private businesses so they will generally follow where there are plenty of patients to register (admittedly not fast enough but that’s a wider issue). Building near the train station and transport hub will lower car dependency. Compared to a lot of areas I’d say Stockport has it pretty good.

Usual comments about public service provision but developers have little control over this as GP Surgeries, Schools, dentists are all subject to bidding for ever decreasing Government funding. It takes years for this to filter down to individual sites through PCTs, Education Authorities etc. Retail providers will want development to have progressed before risking investment in an untried catchment. Of course we need these things, but from experience wait for public funding to arrive and you’ll wait a long time and it’s a real chicken and egg issue. You don’t build a school where there are only 20 houses actually built and so on.

Absorption, Absorption, Absorption!

Why has the comment section on this website become a parade of Nimbyism recently?

I notice folk demand more GPs, schools, hospitals, police, public transport, kindergarten and so on, after voting Tory to “save taxpayers money” and “shrink the nanny state”. Why not ask free-marked de-regulated low-taxed Capital Corporations to provide them? Or if you can not pay for them yoursen, you must go without.

As ever insightful comments.
Interesting to learn how Stockport town centre is simultaneously in need of shops, but also has so many that these new homes will displace them.

All those shouting “but what about the infrastructure” – surely that’s one of the reasons why they want to create a strategic regeneration framework.

Consultants are good. When their half-baked theory and the sparkling dust disappears into a reality of nonething-ness. The executives who paid the millions can blame it on the “consultants”. And the consultants (who have moved on) can blame it on the executives (who have moved on) for not properly implementing their “suggestions”. It’s a Win-Win Game. But what can you do if their are no adult professionals anywhere.

With all the increase in traffic this will bring and the fact that the A6 and surrounding roads towards Hazel Grove, Offerton, Romiley etc are gridlocked, is it not time to discuss the Hazel Grove Bypass. I know it’s not to everyone’s liking, BUT it is the last link in the chain after the road from the airport and new Poynton link. It would bring massive relief to many. Labour councillers killed it off a couple of years ago but maybe its needs to be looked at again. Not everyone works within a short dustance or find it easy to use public transport.

Building homes if good as long as the bigger picture is looked at. Sensible affordable homes NOT a mass of high rise apartments..do NOT overcrowd the area….good road systems and YES medical surgeries, and schools etc as well

Why do some people on this comments page think it’s the councils job to provide shops? Shops will thrive in an area if people use them to buy stuff its basic economics . In theory the new people attracted by this development will help support existing and new shops, In reality high street shops are in decline because of online shopping. If we all stopped buying stuff on line and bought stuff in the physical shops they would thrive but this ain’t going to happen so get used to shops closing.

The issue of additional public sector services / infrastructure such as GPs, dentists, schools is a valid one and which I am sure the Council are alive to. The key challenge is how these services are provided for in any plan / reservation framework. Putting plans in place to deliver such services is critical and funding those services via a CIL type arrangement is key. This will bring associated challenges of viability for affordable homes albeit the thresholds being promoted in the draft Local Plan for the town centre are relatively low. Manchester has delivered such public service outcomes to varying degrees of success in Ascots / New Islington and in Great Jackson Street albeit without a CIL structure.

Cllr Mellor roundly criticised the draft plan for Stockport presented in Committee and Cabinet. I now putblically ask him to present the Labour alternativexplan which addresses the points he criticicised the current plan for nor addressing. The public consultation whi h commences 2 Sep is the opportunity to critique the draft plan and propose alternatives.

Good, the town is desperate for an injection of new blood al, hopefully the moaners will skiddadle.

Old Victorian property’s on Hillgate need demolition job

No doubt even higher council tax bills next year then to pay for all the consultants and planners who will no doubt propose infrastructures that are a blot on the landscape.

Excellent news housing housing and more housing,I’m sick to death of seeing our streets lined with homeless,we need homes,jobs,and a government that will take back our NHS,people need to stop blaming the wrong people for the state of the country,I’m not sure at all if this government are any better than the last we shall see.provide homes ,jobs and health care ,people will hopefully will become kind humans in the future.

So all this new build is NOT addressing the shortage of council homes,all private investments,with rents expected to be 1000 to 1500 pound a month. Address your council house problem first, not private investors..

As a proud Stopfordian who now lives in Cheshire East, I was amazed at the scale and quality of the current town centre redevelopment. Not everybody wants to live in a property with a garden and the provision of modern apartments, will provide more properties of a traditional construction for those who do. As previously said, residing next a major transport hub will encourage the use of public transport. People will always resist change, but give it a while and it will steadily grow on you.
Be thankful for the level investment in our fantastic town, there are many adjacent authorities looking on with envy.

New town centre homes are exactly was Stockport needs. Homes filled with young professionals paying council tax and with disposable income to spend in shops etc. Whilst typically adding less pressure to public services.

Why not let the council tax payers decide what they want and need ?
The decline in our shops in the town centre has seen a once thriving town centre and market place as the place to shop, meet up with family and friends a place that employed a lot of local people. There were lots of local jobs available. Concentrate on helping local people, communities and businesses to thrive. Build houses, flats whatever you need to do and make local people the priority for housing we would not have to worry about extra dentist doctors, schools and other services then would we !

This is fabulous but there needs to be gp and dentist increase etc to accommodate more people let alone. Schools the basic structure has to be there before expansion

How many of these properties are going to be social housing. It’s OK saying they’re going to be affordable but there are a lot of people in Stockport who can’t afford to buy or pay the extremely high rent on private rentals.

We need infrastructure improvement as well as homes schools roads doctors dentists

Will all the infrastructure be updated to cope with this? The roads into Stockport town centre can be congested at present

Are these homes going to be council for the much needed and homeless that are still waiting years later on the lists or is it yet again private with just a few to council or most part shared? The council literally needs to build new estates of just council housing or this crisis is never going to end … Most estates being built are private company’s giving perhaps 10% to the council.

Here we go. How much Green Belt has Mark Hunter been allocated to build on. Why doesn’t He ask the Contractors to build in His Councillors Back Gardens that way, He’ll save a lot of Green Belt & money. Also, the Council Tax should fall in price for what He’s intending. Ask Andy Burnham to pick on someone else as ‘They’re’ in the ‘Spacial Framework’.

Great to see a plan to regenerate the town centre with affordable homes where they are sustainable accessible and needed

Don’t think anything that’s happened has altered my view off Stockport town centre , it still is to me a place to avoid . The precinct has no decent shops with Marks and Spencer’s leaving that was the final nail . The fall off the high street tho is a huge problem for all areas .

@July 25, 2024 at 8:53 am
By Anonymous

Try Old Town which is very attractive and full of independents. Stockport is not just Merseyway.

I am sick of hearing about these great plans for building thousands of new homes and regeneration schemes throughout the country. There is currently a crisis in the Building Control sector, who is going to inspect these buildings?

it’s still dead every day except Saturday, yes including the old town

Stockport council Proposing another 4000 homes but can’t help anyone with social housing!

Are these supposedly houses for people of Stockport ?