Local plan scoping consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 1952

Received: 18/08/2026

Respondent: Mr Daniel Fullwood

The Plan’s transport strategy must reconcile its aim to reduce car dependency with allocating development where access depends on constrained local roads. Near Macclesfield FC, traffic and parking conditions are already materially different on match and event days. Any site assessment must therefore use observed event-day surveys as well as normal weekday modelling. No allocation should proceed unless the Infrastructure Delivery Plan identifies funded, deliverable improvements to highway safety, parking management, public transport and walking and cycling routes, with clear delivery timing. Infrastructure must be in place before occupation, rather than relying on uncertain future developer contributions.

Comment

Representation ID: 1953

Received: 18/08/2026

Respondent: Mr Daniel Fullwood

The Council should require a cumulative-impact assessment for all potential growth around Macclesfield and Sutton. Site assessments should not consider each field in isolation while existing commitments, including development in south Macclesfield, already place pressure on roads, services, green infrastructure and the natural environment. The assessment should address combined effects on match-day traffic, air quality, drainage and flood risk, school and healthcare capacity, biodiversity, landscape character and settlement separation. Without this evidence, the Council cannot demonstrate that further outward growth is sustainable or that necessary mitigation is deliverable and funded.

Comment

Representation ID: 1954

Received: 18/08/2026

Respondent: Mr Daniel Fullwood

The Plan should reconcile its carbon-neutrality target for 2045 with decisions that would permanently urbanise productive countryside and increase car travel. Paragraphs 5.25 and 5.115 recognise the importance of agricultural land, efficient land use, carbon sequestration and reducing transport emissions. Before any greenfield allocation near Sutton, the Council should assess agricultural land quality, soils, hedgerows, trees, wildlife corridors, drainage and the carbon consequences of development. Biodiversity net gain should not be treated as a substitute for retaining established, connected habitats and farmland. Brownfield regeneration and reuse in Macclesfield should be demonstrably exhausted first.