Local plan scoping consultation

Dear Cheshire East,

I strongly object to the loss of Greenbelt Land.

Specifically in this case, the Greenbelt Land between Buxton Old Road, Leadbeaters Reservoir and Blakelow Road.

It has been put forward as a possible site for “Housing And Employment” within “The New Local Plan”.

This must not happen.

Planning must have exhausted all redevelopment sites of existing poor condition housing, brownfield and regrettably greenfield sites, before looking elsewhere.
Macclesfield is a wonderful town, loss of the Greenbelt will severely diminish the character of the town, as it is surrounded by a green landscape of farmland and hills. Loss of any of this will have a negative impact how environment that we live in and loss of the general wellbeing of the people of Macclesfield.
The movement of people from the town, through the Greenbelt and into the wider countryside, is a very important zone that allows people to enjoy the greener spaces, have well being and good mental health. Continuous built up areas are not conducive to these important aspects of life and community living.
This particular area is a natural amphitheatre, the noise and sounds of building will be a terrible blight on the community below, then the everyday noise pollution emanating from any new homes would be a constant blight and be extremely harmful to the quality of life to all the residents living below. And they would be below any new housing and be overlooked, which is together with the noise would make life unbearable. It is not an area that lends itself to having more roads, more traffic, and the difficulty of introducing all the necessary utilities to them. Road access will be difficult for the large numbers of cars, vans and lorries, both in construction and then people living. The area is not suitable for this.

More houses and therefore more people will mean that there are a larger number of people requiring services such as, Doctors, Dentists, schools, social services, care and hospitals. The capacity of all these must have already been increased to cope with the increase in the town’s population before it increases. Can East Cheshire Council and the NHS put all this in place? As they will know how many houses are being built there will be an accurate number for the increased number of residents. So, no excuses about not understanding the demand.

The care and maintenance of the streets, grass verges and green spaces, that are required for the houses being built? We don’t see grass being cut and drains being cleaned very often at all, how do these services stretch to new areas?

So can I register my objection against this area of land being developed and houses built on it and losing very precious greenbelt.

Best regards,

Stuart

Stuart Bain