Stockport to approve Green Belt double whammy

The Oldham 31 – are you following this?

More places for everyone

Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of their own actions.

The Lytham Drive development is shocking. Green belt is essential is there for a reason. Traffic is horrendous as it is, roads not built for heavy construction vehicles. Rush hour times given ate incorrect. Any safety consideration for safety of pedestrians, especially school children

After more building work…. just a matter of time before the floods …. I’m going to set up a rubber rubber dinghy company company and I wil be a millionaire in no time

There is very little green belt in and around these two areas – so leave them alone! Find grey / brown belt areas there are plenty.

If houses are going to be built on green belt then every possible attempt should be made to keep and improve some of the green space around them. Landscaping should be an important factor in the planning process to minimise the loss of habitat and green areas. Greener materials should also be important in the buildings and provision for a more aesthetic overall development.

No infrastructure planned for extra traffic? Whatever happend to the long promised A6 bypass? Hazel grove still has 4 lanes of traffic running through it!

The mismanagement of the planning process by the councillors in Stockport is staggering. The chickens are coming home to roost and by complete coincidence Mark Hunter, the leader of the council is stepping down.

The Bramhall one is hardly green belt – its got a few sheds and a repair garage on most of it! Brownfield development is exactly what the borough needs but there’s no convincing the NIMBYs

Why bother having an objection procedure that the council then totally ignore

I would of thought the hundreds of flats being built in Stockport is plenty without having to build on brown sites

What roads and bypasses are planned? Stockport is becoming one big car park…

If you voted Labour you’re getting what you voted for.

Stockport has no choice but to build as the current Government and previous one have set targets which they have to meet. Most of the planning decisions are to be made by officers using the current planning law which Labour have decided on. It is effectively being taken out of the hands of local people. Stockport has no money to fight anything in court .

There are so many brown sites in the borough that should be used not greenbelt this is disgusting and all money nothing else not tge environment or impact on the services and infrastructure. Absolute shame on Stockport council for even considering these propsals

And where is the additional infrastructure? Hmm yes thought not

The Lytham drive plan is madness . The roads just cannot take it . It is a one track road with 2 schools near by. At school time it is mayhem now without the added traffic that this will cause .
Also what about medical care? The GPs and stepping hill hospital just cannot cope at present and with the Rugby club development as well with its mainly elderly population this will cause added problems.
All the above is without the problem of building on greenfield sites?
I hope that you will reconsider and stop these developments

Everywhere choked as it is .this is ludicrous to fill these areas with housing and cars .

This what no Local Plan looks like.. brought to you especially by Stockport Liberal Democrats 👏🏻

Think it’s dreadful the way these plans look as if

Build housing on the unused industrial estates .. but no…. because green belts hold bigger profits11

The rest of Jackson’s Lane will be next.

Schools, GPs, Hospital facilities, roads-2 cars or more at each of the houses. Recipe for crisis!

Build houses on all rugby clubs and public spaces

JA – Yes central government set housing targets for local authorities to meet but it is for the councils to decide how they are delivered. The problem at Stockport is that they pulled out of the Greater Manchester planning framework without any alternative plan. The council in Stockport has repeatedly failed to draw up a local plan therefore allowing developers almost free reign to develop where they like including Green Belt land. The Lib Dem council are to blame and their leaders way of dealing with it is to run for the hills.

So when do we get a new hospital.

So many planning experts commenting here and yet council’s still struggle to find planning experts they can employ.

I support the new houses on Jackson Lane as im looking to downsize to a smaller house

Absolutely disgraceful, not surprised that the council planning department has let the community down again

I Hardly think that it’s high density housing and very much doubt if it will do little if anything to effect the housing situation, but it will make a tidy profit of a few…if the council are serious about the shortage why not built multi occupancy dwelling or even a couple of tower blocks…

I’m 100% against greenbelt development but these are not really greenbelt.

Surely they should be holding people responsible? Personally, on a pedestal.

Otherwise, and similar to the rest of Greater Manc, I sit watching with popcorn.

Of course the Green Be.t is important but a balance has to be struck between community need and the environment, achieved by design. The houses constructed need to be reasonably priced and purchase must reflect local earnings. Should contain elements for recreation and the natural world.

Oh Dear! Are these new homes going to spoil your view? No problem we won’t build them but we are going to have to increase your council tax to £20,000 a year or perhaps we should create a tent city for all the homeless people. Its typical of the selfish attitude that has polluted Britain.If you don’t want the houses built there it’s simple MOVE ELSEWHERE!! and stop your moaning. Thank God Labour has put a stop to it otherwise NO!! houses would ever be built.

Lytham drive needs this we need more houses built away. Bramhall needs more houses
All the people moaning about loosing greenbelt half of their houses were built on it so get a grip

I do enjoy reading the ludicrous hyperbole that emerges from local residents on these sort of schemes. You’d think their very existence was under threat.

Labour chickens coming home to roost. They are going to pass every development and concrete over the whole of GM and only the truly naive will believe its ’affordable’ homes for everyone 😂

Just who is this housing supposed to be for?
A limited amount of people will be able to afford them I’m sure.
Even if locals object as some did, it still goes through.
No point having Surveys, just a waste of time.x

Some of the attitudes on here show why sanity and reason have left the building when it comes to housing. ‘move somewhere else’ ? Deary me the keyboard chewers are out in force on this one!

Fascinating mis of comments for and against! My two-penneth is simply to say that anyone that thinks congestion on Jacksons Lane is ‘horrendous’ and/or that this development will make it materially worse has no real grasp of travel demand and/or road capacity analysis…

Anonymous 12.24pm – The Lib Dems are in power in Stockport not Labour.

I hope it gets approved! All these comments apposed to the development already sit in a cushy home. We ALL NEED A HOME!!!