Town hall asks landowners for possible housing sites

MORE of Macclesfield’s land could be up for development after a fresh call from the council for landowners to come forward with potential sites for houses.

It’s part of the process to produce the second phase of the Local Plan – which dictates what will be built in Macclesfield and across the borough.

The first part of the plan, named the Local Plan Strategy, has identified large areas of land for development, including more than 100 hectares of green belt in south-west Macclesfield – which could accommodate hundreds of new homes.

But now the council is preparing the second part