Local plan scoping consultation

I am responding to the local plan consultation as a resident of Cheshire East. I live in Adlington and regularly walk through the area and enjoy the countryside. I am concerned at the shear volume of planning applications and the huge amount of the area identified on the call for the sites that it would fundamentally and irrevocably change the character of the area. We are at risk of being consumed by the Manchester conurbation. I want the new local plan to be evidence based, infrastructure first and brownfield first.

Before any land can be used for housing, it is essential that the plan includes the necessary infrastructure to support those houses; roads, public transport, healthcare, water, power, sewerage and drainage. All of these are overstretched as it is. Greenbelt land should only be considered as a last resort. The new definition of grey belt as excuse to pave over our countryside should never have been permitted.

So many new developments are built without any consideration to public transport and become car centric, increasing the congestion on our already stressed road network.

I am also concerned about food security, especially with the weather in recent years and the outlook for the climate over the years and decades to come, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to get good yields and reducing the land we have to farm by building all over it will not help. The countryside is not empty space. It is a living and connected landscape that is essential to our survival.

Planning applications need to consider not only what is gained, but also what is lost. The countryside cannot be brought back once it is destroyed.

Kind regards,
Andrew Jackson
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I am responding to the local plan consultation as a resident of Cheshire East. I live in Adlington and regularly walk through the area and enjoy the countryside. I am concerned at the shear volume of planning applications and the huge amount of the area identified on the call for the sites that it would fundamentally and irrevocably change the character of the area. We are at risk of being consumed by the Manchester conurbation. I want the new local plan to be evidence based, infrastructure first and brownfield first.

Before any land can be used for housing, it is essential that the plan includes the necessary infrastructure to support those houses; roads, public transport, healthcare, water, power, sewerage and drainage. All of these are overstretched as it is. Greenbelt land should only be considered as a last resort. The new definition of grey belt as excuse to pave over our countryside should never have been permitted.

So many new developments are built without any consideration to public transport and become car centric, increasing the congestion on our already stressed road network.

I am also concerned about food security, especially with the weather in recent years and the outlook for the climate over the years and decades to come, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to get good yields and reducing the land we have to farm by building all over it will not help. The countryside is not empty space. It is a living and connected landscape that is essential to our survival.

Planning applications need to consider not only what is gained, but also what is lost. The countryside cannot be brought back once it is destroyed.

Kind regards,
Andrew Jackson
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I am responding to the local plan consultation as a resident of Cheshire East. I live in Adlington and regularly walk through the area and enjoy the countryside. I am concerned at the shear volume of planning applications and the huge amount of the area identified on the call for the sites that it would fundamentally and irrevocably change the character of the area. We are at risk of being consumed by the Manchester conurbation. I want the new local plan to be evidence based, infrastructure first and brownfield first.

Before any land can be used for housing, it is essential that the plan includes the necessary infrastructure to support those houses; roads, public transport, healthcare, water, power, sewerage and drainage. All of these are overstretched as it is. Greenbelt land should only be considered as a last resort. The new definition of grey belt as excuse to pave over our countryside should never have been permitted.

So many new developments are built without any consideration to public transport and become car centric, increasing the congestion on our already stressed road network.

I am also concerned about food security, especially with the weather in recent years and the outlook for the climate over the years and decades to come, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to get good yields and reducing the land we have to farm by building all over it will not help. The countryside is not empty space. It is a living and connected landscape that is essential to our survival.

Planning applications need to consider not only what is gained, but also what is lost. The countryside cannot be brought back once it is destroyed.

Kind regards,
Andrew Jackson
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I am responding to the local plan consultation as a resident of Cheshire East. I live in Adlington and regularly walk through the area and enjoy the countryside. I am concerned at the shear volume of planning applications and the huge amount of the area identified on the call for the sites that it would fundamentally and irrevocably change the character of the area. We are at risk of being consumed by the Manchester conurbation. I want the new local plan to be evidence based, infrastructure first and brownfield first.

Before any land can be used for housing, it is essential that the plan includes the necessary infrastructure to support those houses; roads, public transport, healthcare, water, power, sewerage and drainage. All of these are overstretched as it is. Greenbelt land should only be considered as a last resort. The new definition of grey belt as excuse to pave over our countryside should never have been permitted.

So many new developments are built without any consideration to public transport and become car centric, increasing the congestion on our already stressed road network.

I am also concerned about food security, especially with the weather in recent years and the outlook for the climate over the years and decades to come, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to get good yields and reducing the land we have to farm by building all over it will not help. The countryside is not empty space. It is a living and connected landscape that is essential to our survival.

Planning applications need to consider not only what is gained, but also what is lost. The countryside cannot be brought back once it is destroyed.

Kind regards,
Andrew Jackson
[REDACTED]

I am responding to the local plan consultation as a resident of Cheshire East. I live in Adlington and regularly walk through the area and enjoy the countryside. I am concerned at the shear volume of planning applications and the huge amount of the area identified on the call for the sites that it would fundamentally and irrevocably change the character of the area. We are at risk of being consumed by the Manchester conurbation. I want the new local plan to be evidence based, infrastructure first and brownfield first.

Before any land can be used for housing, it is essential that the plan includes the necessary infrastructure to support those houses; roads, public transport, healthcare, water, power, sewerage and drainage. All of these are overstretched as it is. Greenbelt land should only be considered as a last resort. The new definition of grey belt as excuse to pave over our countryside should never have been permitted.

So many new developments are built without any consideration to public transport and become car centric, increasing the congestion on our already stressed road network.

I am also concerned about food security, especially with the weather in recent years and the outlook for the climate over the years and decades to come, it’s going to become increasingly difficult to get good yields and reducing the land we have to farm by building all over it will not help. The countryside is not empty space. It is a living and connected landscape that is essential to our survival.

Planning applications need to consider not only what is gained, but also what is lost. The countryside cannot be brought back once it is destroyed.

Kind regards,
Andrew Jackson
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