Community cannot take more homes and schools
VIEWPOINTS
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I AM writing out of sheer exasperation as to what is happening to Cheadle Hulme.
Yet again I have just crawled the last part of my journey back from the M60 onto the A34 and up Cheadle Road.
This part of my journey is less than three miles but regularly can take me 20-30 minutes in the morning and at night. It can take 15 minutes just to get on to the roundabout at Schools Hill.
And then you read that yet more housing is being created in the centre of Cheadle Hulme, and with the 155 homes on the roundabout that is laughingly called Barnes Village, just by the A34 and now a junior and high school being built on Cheadle Road.
What kind of time will this soul destroying journey then turn into? And what kind of community? You can already taste the fumes on Cheadle Road with the slow excruciating crawl through Cheadle Hulme.
There seems to be a frenzy whipped up for the demand for these schools, yet when these numbers are reported and the over subscription stated can we be fair and know is this demand from people LIVING WITHIN THE CATCHMENT AREA or are we building wherever there is space and adding yet more congestion to an already choked area.
Everyone you talk to now, although not happy, just shrugs and say its a done deal , there’s no point in objecting, is this really what we’ve come to ?
I’m fed up with government targets taking precedence over common sense and essentially over what the local area wants and needs.
It now seems green space or quality of life seem a totally unrealistic expectation from the community you live in.
If it’s taking 30 minutes to travel three miles now, where is it going to end up? Sarah Barber, Cheadle Hulme