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●● LAST week we revealed that developers will appeal the council’s decision to refuse permission to develop Barracks Mill. Readers have been sharing their thoughts:
Claire-louise Davenport: We have nothing that brings people anyway. We first need to bring the people with what they know and love and then give them something even better. As the film goes ‘build it and they will come’. I’m all for us becoming a thriving town first and then throwing our unique ideas into the mix. We can’t rely on uniqueness if no one is going to come to macc and see it, so first we need to get them here x
Graham Robinson: I’m pretty sure that any development will be an improvement on what’s there at present. With regards to the argument that this development would stop people venturing into the town centre, I’d tend to agree if there was something there worth visiting in the first place. At present, there’s absolutely no incentive for me to take my family into Macclesfield on a weekend whatsoever. With poor shopping and limited leisure activities available, we end up going to Handforth Dean, Wilmslow, Congleton and the Trafford Centre.
John Lawrenson: The people have spoken in numbers regarding this! I urge the council to do what they are supposed to do and listen to the good people of Macclesfield and let developers develop!! Macclesfield retail is terrible and who knows, we might end up with a progressive, profitable and thriving town one day!
Jon Thompson: Maybe they’ll return with a plan that doesn’t turn Macc into a CLONE town just like every other. We need something UNIQUE that people can’t get elsewhere.
Sam Redfern-Perry: Yawn, yawn. There is nothing unique about nothing and that’s currently all the town has to offer on nontreacle days. I guess this whole attitude is exactly what mill owners had to contend with 200 years ago from the luddites, but you’re all proud of our mill and silk heritage now.
Irene Herbert: I’m with the appeal as shops proposed are not town shops so it doesn’t take anything from town just get on with it!
John Withers: The proposal does nothing to add to the town, it’s another bland plan. ●● THE fight to retain a free bus service for pupils travelling from Bollington to Tytherington goes on. Parent Francesca Wharton says its not safe for children to cross the Silk Road.
David Turner: It’s not a free bus. Why should there be social privileges to parents in Bollington at expense of all council taxpayers in Cheshire East. Want a bus service, take the public ones and pay, or club together and hire/buy a bus and pay to run it. All so concerned about safety and yet nobody seems to want to solve the problem themselves. I’m really unsure why on earth this was ever council funded in the first place!
Martin Smith: Because this is the price of society, we all share the cost.
David Turner: Very good point, to which end I hope the saved money is used to ring-fence investments elsewhere for those more needy, or that benefit proportional far more of the populous.
Martin Smith: How much more needy do you require children to be? And what better investment is there, than in those that may contribute to our community to a far greater degree later in life.
Tanya O’Brien: Why don’t people just pay for the use of the bus then it wouldn’t be a service they can cut, parents could even hire one. Free services they cut left right and centre £10 a week is a small price to pay for their safety xx
Kath Spilsbury: Well I am sorry but the bus service must keep going I have 3 grandchildren it’s a lot of money each month.
Matthew George Bailey: Well if you want it to keep going then you pay for it. Its disgraceful that parents are moaning about the price of keeping their kids safe but will happily pay for drinks and boozy Saturday nights out.
Julie Hughes: Plus, how safe would it be to walk down Middlewood Way in winter when it’s dark?
Matthew George Bailey: Common sense tells me to put your child onto a bus rather than tell them to walk along the unsafe route.