Local plan scoping consultation

Comment

Representation ID: 4014

Received: 31/08/2026

Respondent: Alison Rodwell

The Local Plan must make recycling easy and accessible. The closure of Bollington’s Household Waste Recycling Centre means residents now face longer journeys to Macclesfield, additional traffic and, at busy times, significant queues. This is inconvenient for residents and creates unnecessary journeys and emissions. As Cheshire East plans substantial housing growth, waste and recycling infrastructure must grow with it, not become less accessible. Making responsible disposal more difficult risks reducing recycling and increasing fly-tipping. The Plan should ensure convenient local recycling provision, sufficient capacity for future population growth and easy access to facilities across both urban and rural communities.

Comment

Representation ID: 4015

Received: 31/08/2026

Respondent: Alison Rodwell

Jodrell Bank is not only an internationally important World Heritage Site but a working scientific facility of global significance. REDACTED. The Local Plan must give the strongest possible protection to its continuing operation. New housing, commercial development or infrastructure should not be permitted where radio-frequency interference could impair the effectiveness of its telescopes. This protection should consider the cumulative impact of multiple developments, not simply individual applications in isolation. Housing targets must not take precedence over safeguarding an irreplaceable scientific asset whose effectiveness depends upon maintaining the radio-quiet environment around it.

Comment

Representation ID: 4021

Received: 31/08/2026

Respondent: Alison Rodwell

I am very concerned about the length of time before the new Local Plan is expected to be adopted in March 2029. The Government’s increase in Cheshire East’s housing requirement from around 1,800 to 2,530 homes a year has effectively moved the goalposts, leaving the borough unable to demonstrate sufficient housing supply under the existing Plan. This creates an unacceptable vulnerability to speculative development during the intervening years, including pressure on Green Belt and farmland. Cheshire East must set out how it will protect communities from inappropriate speculative development while urgently progressing a robust, brownfield-first new Local Plan.