Stockport reluctantly looks to Green Belt as it restarts local plan refresh

There’s no point in making any comments as this Government does exactly want it wants to do despite people’s opinions.

What a great decision by Stockport to leave the PfE, would never have seen this coming. Makes their decision to leave even more baffling!

What a joke, they’ve already ruined the feeling of the borough. Houses absolutely everywhere, on top of shoehorning more into the town centres.

Tell the plan no, we are sick of more houses.

NEW TOWNS Stockport has brownfield in abundance, most of it squatted by car sales and car parks. At Welkin Mill Pear Mill there are several hectares of land for a new town. Bredbury has so much spare land it was given large warehouses as if there are no housing needs. There is so much spare land along St Mary’s Way there are huge car franchises
mothballed along its route.
More brown field along the A6.
If the rule if 6-7 storey town houses with facilities on the ground floor it is possible to reduce car use. Noddy box estates just increase car use and short journeys

As long as They don’t touch the Parks & ignore the NIMBYs’, then do it. But, be fair.

We have so much green belt land not being used people need a decent place to live ,please do not let the nimbys stop people living in a nice area

Who could have foreseen this entirely predictable series of events?

While devolution makes a good story, we cannot have renegade provinces like Stockport refusing to defile the greenbelt. We need a strong politburo with sufficient algorithms to bring them to heel.

The more houses that are built,the more traffic it brings.As regards Jacksons Lane in Hazel Grove,what they need to do there is get rid of the cycle lanes as especially cycling groups still use the main road.

When the Lib -Dems nailed themselves to their inflexible brownfield only development policy it was obvious they would be unable to meet any central Govt imposed targets let alone satisfy upwardly aspirational folk wanting to live in a better environment but as the present Govt blames the Tories for our financial woes the Lib-Dems instead of facing up to the shortcomings of an inflexible agenda will merely wring their hands & blame Westminster.

The Victorians recognised the necessity of open space so why not appreciate that. There will soon be nowhere that’s not blighted by over development.

Housing need to be built with green spaces balconies and allotment or playground areas We don’t need noddy boxes with double car space s. Public transport needs to be considered as first choice for residents so should be carefully planned along side the building plans with hopper buses/trams connections etc in abundance . As per carbon footprint Shops supermarkets launderette doctors dentist should be built into the plans too,or underneath higher rise . Community halls should also be put into these new ‘villages ‘ .There are many car business areas and car parks that could be used for housing we need to look beyond the car as king . IF WE are building in green belt we need to replace with green areas … lungs matter .

Re cycle lanes along Jackson’s Lane and especially Dean Lane cyclists don’t use the cycle lanes because they are generally unfit for purpose unless you have a BMX bike.

Please do not destroy greenbelt. We need to breathe. Convert old Mills.

Typical nimby responses in the green belt, you’d swear they were going to pave the whole countryside. Madness, most likely these people live in houses that were once on green fields , but now feel like they have a god given right to their views and dog walking tracks. I’m fine, forget about the reality and everyone else. My main concern is when we build in the countryside it’s usually barrat home style utter rubbish, tarmac heavy and poorly built. There’s so many better ways to deliver housing.

This was always going to happen under this present government, they seem desperate to destroy everything throughout the country that is green and beautiful, as has already been said, there is an abundance of brownfield land in this borough, however, redeveloping it is more expensive than building on green belt, there is one of the main reasons for this unpalatable decision.

I wouldn’t worry too much . With planning paralysis, and ridiculously high affordable home provisions, no sane developer would bother tackling a development in the Borough.

Stupid comments about lots of green belt not being used like that should be a point to build houses on erm no the whole point of green belt land is so we can have places that we can go for walks, our children can play on and lots of trees that are needed for our planet. Maybe should knock down old buildings that are not used anymore or derelict and rebuild

This is all going to backfire on Stockport now. Should have stayed in the original plan. Council will have egg on its v foolish face. Sometimes it’s better the devil you know…..

If the government stopped immigration,legal and illegal, we wouldn’t have as much pressure to build everywhere. We are pouring more fuel on a fire that’s already out of control by letting almost a million people come in every year.

We cannot move on the roads now we do not want anymore more on high lane and who are these houses for. High lane is already packed with traffic please no more.

Anonymous 4.07 – or you could also get on your bike and never have to get stuck in traffic ever again?

Stockport will have the full attention of Ms Rayner and her building plans……last article was 109 flats in Hazel Grove with 39 parking spaces. Last small estate the builder went bust so houses demolished and currently being rebuilt SMBC couldn’t run a kids sports day.

Another Rediclious pot holed plan by the labour government who are hellbent in abolishing green belt altogether total disregard. I disagree, there’s more than enough new housing being built. Stockport is one big building site from start to finish. Don’t wreck what little green space we have green is vital to our local environment and well being but as always labour doesn’t listen

I have read your comments regarding you may have to use Green Belt area. You mention
all these areas in Stockport. Could I ask where are these people who will live in these proposed houses have access to hospital (Stepping Hill is crumbling.) Where are the schools, where will the extra Drs surgeries be. High Lane at the moment is chock a block with cars Windlehurst Road at 7 am until 9 am is disgusting with cars queuing then raving their engines (causing air pollution) . Radios blasting. Where are all these people who will be living in these extra house like all these that are going up in Stockport centre going to work? Instead of looking at building more houses you should be looking at putting the money into re- building our hospital. That is more important.

What are their plans for infrastructure to support the increase in local population? Public transport, roads, schools, hospitals, GPs, healthcare in the community, policing …

Baffling the amount of people who do not know how Planning Permissions work for house building. The majority of Permissions set in stone that the developers contribute to things such as schools and local infrastructure. Millions of pounds on larger schemes are paid to Councils for this.

If the lib dems steadfastly refused to use Green Belt for development how come they recommended that a Battery storage plant be built on farmland in romiley

There is practically no green space left round here. All the towns have merged into one urban sprawl. The time has come to say NO to more housing. Too many new houses and too many cars on the roads. If the government don’t like it …tough!

There isn’t enough skilled builders around to build all these house’s and if there was they wouldn’t be affordable

Get rid of the Green Belt policy it serves no useful purpose today. There is already policy protection for most things that require protection and from which people actually derive a tangible benefit. GB policy dates from 1947 when the UK population was approx 50M, it’s now 67M and there is an obligation to plan the expansion of our urban areas properly, something GB does not allow us to do. And before anyone mentions migration, its worth noting that life expectancy has increased by an average of 18% for men and women since 1947, that’s more pensioners and for every one, it takes 3 working age taxpayers to fund them. Pensioners will continue to increase, we therefore need growth and that requires land for homes and employment. Re-use brownfield as much as possible but it won’t take away the need for land on the edge of our existing urban areas.

Well done Stockport Council for so carefully aiming to reduce the amount of Green Belt land used for housing to date. Now some will need to be released but I think we can be confident in your future decision making.

One of the attractions of living in Stockport is you’re never far away from a green area to go to, this will spoil Stockport forever

“…the whole point of green belt land is so we can have places that we can go for walks, our children can play on and lots of trees that are needed for our planet.” [November 20, 2024 at 7:59 pm By Anonymous]

Ummm… [Checks 5 purposes of Green Belt]… nope. The whole point is, in fact, none of those things, however worthy they may be.
No good having space for children to play on if they have no home to live in.

Stockport council have been after the greenbelt for houses for years, there are plenty of brownfield sites to develop but they aren’t interested in them as there isn’t enough value in the properties that would be built on them, how many of the newbuilds will be affordable housing for youngsters just starting on the property ladder?

High Lane hasn’t got the infrastructure for more people. Plus the A6 is already a nightmare!

Once Stockport Lib Dems pulled out of the GMSF the increased use of greenbelt for house building was inevitable. The Lib Dems will try to blame the Government but they are to blame for the Greenbelt in the area being eaten up by developers.

Clearly Caroline Simpson jumped ship at a very good time from Stockport.

This Government seem to have forgotten the fact we are supposed to live in a democracy not a dictatorship. They just want to ride rough shot over everything. High lane is already rammed I live there. Unfortunately they won’t listen to anyone. The Great in Great Britain is rapidly disappearing sadly.