Spatial Framework plans feel like we are being dumped on
REGARDING the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, the allocations of sites for housing and industrial development in Stockport seem most unevenly spread - housing all one side of the borough and industry on the other.
Surely it would be better for industry and employment to be returned to the Woodford area after the loss of Aerospace rather than further add to their concentration in the east.
There is already traffic congestion and its consequent air pollution in the areas around the M60 junctions 25/26 (Lower Bredbury, Woodley and Brinnington) occasioned by the present industrial complex and the waste recycling plant which despite its shiny steel containers still spreads malodorous fumes over the area on occasion.
Further industrialisation would only generate more. And it seems the Eastern Gateway proposals could mean an even larger industrial aggregation.
These are areas housing poorer members of the Stockport community. You could argue that industry would bring employment to families on low income but they also need somewhere to live – preferably decent, low cost and social housing with some access to green spaces.
The existing green spaces are threatened by the proposed industrial estate, which will concrete over the fields beyond Woodley Sports Centre, and the ‘high-quality infrastructure’ to serve the estate presumably will be the proposed bypass from junction 25/26 through the Goyt Valley destroying much of the Woodbank Park and Poise Brook conservation area.
There does not seem much provision for the ‘new garden city neighbourhoods that meet high environmental and social standards’ for those of us who live here. Indeed it feels like we are being dumped on. Diane Coffey Stockport
DISABLED NEED PARKING SPACES
IT is with sadness that I see more and more people abusing the disabled parking facilities in Stockport.
These facilities are for people who have genuine need of these spaces, yet all too often people abuse the blue badge scheme and park in disabled only spaces – even displaying a valid blue badge on their windscreen, as they rush off to the shops.
The situation on Chestergate is getting ridiculous. Name and address supplied
COUNCILLOR CONFUSION
I NOTE Lib Dem Councillor Mark Hunter doesn’t want any housing to be built in the Green Belt.
However, he very much wanted the A6 Airport Relief Road – ‘the Cheadle Constituency Link Road’ - to go through green belt and destroy ancient woodland.
I think Coun Hunter speaks with forked tongue, and by no means for the first time. Sheila Oliver Romiley