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and hospitals to cater for all of these extra people? Sharon Pollard: No school places, school buses are full. Antony Allen: Here we go. The usual people who live in the countryside don’t want others to live in the countryside so cry green belt. It’s not about protecting the environment just be honest it’s about protecting your way of life and your house price. Given just 8 per cent of Cheshire East is built on, a few more houses are not just welcome, they’ll make no real difference to the amount of green space we enjoy. Linda Miller: Soon this part of Macclesfield will be part of the larger town - there will be no fields left! CEC are also proposing to build houses in Gawsworth village on existing green belt land on Dark Lane near the treacherous crossroads! Even though there are going to be 100s of houses built elsewhere in Gawsworth parish and in the vicinity which will meet the needs of the Parish - see Save Gawsworth Green Belt Facebook site. John Britton: Happening all over the country - around every town.... housing estates of sardine can ‘houses’, with gardens and rooms so small you can’t swing a cat in, garages you can’t fit a car in. The country’s population is out of control. Pete Watson: Just get them built there’s always going to be objections from somewhere and nothing gets done the fiasco of the town centre is decades old proof of that! Yet ironically these are the same people screaming for things to get done! Sharon Pollard: 330 houses opposite your house, no bus service, full school bus, no school places, and 600 more cars on an already inadequate road, you should join the Tory council. Jason Jackson: They won’t be and green left soon. Jamie Robins: All the folk who complain will be the first in queue to buy a new house soon. Carol Goodwin: Would be a lovely area to live. Gemma Tilsey: I’d rather they built them on just got on with it. I don’t want my grandchildren growing up in a dead zombie town all because of today’ generation of selfish, self important tree hugging fools. Sharona Kirby: Us tree hugging fools are trying to save a little bit of greenery for your grandchildren to appreciate before this green and pleasant land becomes a concrete jungle. Stephen Windsor: More houses being built on green belt land won’t make the town any less a dead zombie town, it will be exactly the same but with more houses! Houses that the average joe can’t afford and an increase in local population putting more strain on the schools, hospitals, utilities etc. There are plenty of brown sites that need developing first and plenty of empty houses that need renovating and making saleable too. Then there needs to be real investment into the town centre to bring it back to life, new shopping centre, cinema etc Then there needs to be major investment in the local services (schools, hospitals, police, parks etc) to cope with the increase in the local population and then and only then once all that has been achieved they should start to consider building affordable housing on some of the green belt. Unfortunately that will not happen. Nick Warrington: Out of interest - where’s the brown field sites in Macc offering up 300 plots? Not looking to cause arguments, just interested to understand where these sites are in Macc and why they can’t be utilised? I’d like to see how we get those 300 brownfield plots turned into houses for local people. Stephen Windsor: The local services can’t handle more housing right now, this is already known, and is the reason that the housing to be built around the Broken Cross and Henbury area has been put on hold. I am not totally against building on green belt my argument is that the council need to sort the local infrastructure out first and improve the town centre, which will benefit future generations far more. Then look at building new housing, but not these £500K + 4 and 5 bedroom houses that only benefit the rich, they should build cheaper affordable houses. A prime example of a brown field site would be the mill behind Tescos, a good number of houses could be built there but because cleaning the site would be relatively expensive it has been earmarked for retail which is not needed. In my opinion money should be spent on cleaning the site and use it for housing.