Local plan scoping consultation

I am responding to the Cheshire East Local Plan Scoping Consultation, with regard to the proposed houses off Waterloo Road, Poynton and more generally to the whole Cheshire East Local Plan and have a number of concerns.

Re: Waterloo Road, Poynton
I am concerned that the local roads will not handle the significant increase in traffic. Note the already dangerous blind junction where Waterloo Road meets Dickens & Moggie Lane or the treacherous twists of Skellorn Lane or simply ask the horse riders on Street Lane about their near misses. As a cyclist these roads are a nightmare to myself and friends and family who also cycle. I dread to think of how these roads would become with heavy building lorries travelling along them.

Significant development off Waterloo Road would increase run-off water which would affect an already poor drainage area, which flooded the Hockley Road are in 2019. United Utilities are frequently in the area clearing the historically poorly maintained drains.

The proposed site encroaches on the western side of the Poynton Coppice Local Nature Reserve, beloved by local people and I personally use the footpath from Coppice Road to cross the fields to enter the Coppice, which would simply be erased. Building on this site will have a detrimental affect on the wildlife in the Nature Reserve which naturally spills out from the reserve into the fields and the surrounding area. I am not aware of any impact study into how the Nature Reserve would be impacted. In our gardens we have wildlife visitors such as badger, foxes, owls, bats, frogs, newts including sightings of great crested newts, sparrowhawks, circling buzzards and many other birds, amphibians and small mammals, which I believe all spill out across the fields from the Coppice as a wildlife corridor to hunt and feed. With a large new housing estate the animals would be restricted, contained and reduced in numbers.

All in all building on the Waterloo Road area would affect a number of groups of people as well as wildlife.

More generally ...
The continual building around Poynton is putting more and more trafffic on our roads and making it impossible to let our young ones safely cycle to school. Additionally older neighbours even with mobility scooters do not have safe routes to navigate through Poynton as the roads are too busy and the footpaths are too narrow and badly maintained to allow practical use. It has been heartbreaking in recent years seeing elderly neighbours unable to get out and about. Poynton's existing inadequate roads, pavements and traffic management needs to be significantly improved before any further building.

Concreting over greenbelt land around Poynton can only increase the risk of flooding as happened in 2019, even with use of french drains on new properties. Through my volunteering with Mersey River Trust, we have been measuring levels of serious contamination in Poynton Brook and this continual building can only increase those levels. Poynton's existing drainage needs to be overhauled before any further building.

Poynton has limited green spaces and the Coppice Local Nature Reserve needs to be protected from all new building, not just at Waterloo Road

With the building to date around Poynton there does not appear to have been any funds or visible improvements to local medical services, schools, roads, utilities and services. I see no accountability for promised funds or that they have been used wisely and therefore cannot have confidence that this plan will be any better.

There appears to be no plan to use up brownfield sites, with the result to just build without infrastructure on Greenbelt land.

I am responding to the Cheshire East Local Plan Scoping Consultation, with regard to the proposed houses off Waterloo Road, Poynton and more generally to the whole Cheshire East Local Plan and have a number of concerns.

Re: Waterloo Road, Poynton
I am concerned that the local roads will not handle the significant increase in traffic. Note the already dangerous blind junction where Waterloo Road meets Dickens & Moggie Lane or the treacherous twists of Skellorn Lane or simply ask the horse riders on Street Lane about their near misses. As a cyclist these roads are a nightmare to myself and friends and family who also cycle. I dread to think of how these roads would become with heavy building lorries travelling along them.

Significant development off Waterloo Road would increase run-off water which would affect an already poor drainage area, which flooded the Hockley Road are in 2019. United Utilities are frequently in the area clearing the historically poorly maintained drains.

The proposed site encroaches on the western side of the Poynton Coppice Local Nature Reserve, beloved by local people and I personally use the footpath from Coppice Road to cross the fields to enter the Coppice, which would simply be erased. Building on this site will have a detrimental affect on the wildlife in the Nature Reserve which naturally spills out from the reserve into the fields and the surrounding area. I am not aware of any impact study into how the Nature Reserve would be impacted. In our gardens we have wildlife visitors such as badger, foxes, owls, bats, frogs, newts including sightings of great crested newts, sparrowhawks, circling buzzards and many other birds, amphibians and small mammals, which I believe all spill out across the fields from the Coppice as a wildlife corridor to hunt and feed. With a large new housing estate the animals would be restricted, contained and reduced in numbers.

All in all building on the Waterloo Road area would affect a number of groups of people as well as wildlife.

More generally ...
The continual building around Poynton is putting more and more trafffic on our roads and making it impossible to let our young ones safely cycle to school. Additionally older neighbours even with mobility scooters do not have safe routes to navigate through Poynton as the roads are too busy and the footpaths are too narrow and badly maintained to allow practical use. It has been heartbreaking in recent years seeing elderly neighbours unable to get out and about. Poynton's existing inadequate roads, pavements and traffic management needs to be significantly improved before any further building.

Concreting over greenbelt land around Poynton can only increase the risk of flooding as happened in 2019, even with use of french drains on new properties. Through my volunteering with Mersey River Trust, we have been measuring levels of serious contamination in Poynton Brook and this continual building can only increase those levels. Poynton's existing drainage needs to be overhauled before any further building.

Poynton has limited green spaces and the Coppice Local Nature Reserve needs to be protected from all new building, not just at Waterloo Road

With the building to date around Poynton there does not appear to have been any funds or visible improvements to local medical services, schools, roads, utilities and services. I see no accountability for promised funds or that they have been used wisely and therefore cannot have confidence that this plan will be any better.

There appears to be no plan to use up brownfield sites, with the result to just build without infrastructure on Greenbelt land.

I am responding to the Cheshire East Local Plan Scoping Consultation, with regard to the proposed houses off Waterloo Road, Poynton and more generally to the whole Cheshire East Local Plan and have a number of concerns.

Re: Waterloo Road, Poynton
I am concerned that the local roads will not handle the significant increase in traffic. Note the already dangerous blind junction where Waterloo Road meets Dickens & Moggie Lane or the treacherous twists of Skellorn Lane or simply ask the horse riders on Street Lane about their near misses. As a cyclist these roads are a nightmare to myself and friends and family who also cycle. I dread to think of how these roads would become with heavy building lorries travelling along them.

Significant development off Waterloo Road would increase run-off water which would affect an already poor drainage area, which flooded the Hockley Road are in 2019. United Utilities are frequently in the area clearing the historically poorly maintained drains.

The proposed site encroaches on the western side of the Poynton Coppice Local Nature Reserve, beloved by local people and I personally use the footpath from Coppice Road to cross the fields to enter the Coppice, which would simply be erased. Building on this site will have a detrimental affect on the wildlife in the Nature Reserve which naturally spills out from the reserve into the fields and the surrounding area. I am not aware of any impact study into how the Nature Reserve would be impacted. In our gardens we have wildlife visitors such as badger, foxes, owls, bats, frogs, newts including sightings of great crested newts, sparrowhawks, circling buzzards and many other birds, amphibians and small mammals, which I believe all spill out across the fields from the Coppice as a wildlife corridor to hunt and feed. With a large new housing estate the animals would be restricted, contained and reduced in numbers.

All in all building on the Waterloo Road area would affect a number of groups of people as well as wildlife.

More generally ...
The continual building around Poynton is putting more and more trafffic on our roads and making it impossible to let our young ones safely cycle to school. Additionally older neighbours even with mobility scooters do not have safe routes to navigate through Poynton as the roads are too busy and the footpaths are too narrow and badly maintained to allow practical use. It has been heartbreaking in recent years seeing elderly neighbours unable to get out and about. Poynton's existing inadequate roads, pavements and traffic management needs to be significantly improved before any further building.

Concreting over greenbelt land around Poynton can only increase the risk of flooding as happened in 2019, even with use of french drains on new properties. Through my volunteering with Mersey River Trust, we have been measuring levels of serious contamination in Poynton Brook and this continual building can only increase those levels. Poynton's existing drainage needs to be overhauled before any further building.

Poynton has limited green spaces and the Coppice Local Nature Reserve needs to be protected from all new building, not just at Waterloo Road

With the building to date around Poynton there does not appear to have been any funds or visible improvements to local medical services, schools, roads, utilities and services. I see no accountability for promised funds or that they have been used wisely and therefore cannot have confidence that this plan will be any better.

There appears to be no plan to use up brownfield sites, with the result to just build without infrastructure on Greenbelt land.

I am responding to the Cheshire East Local Plan Scoping Consultation, with regard to the proposed houses off Waterloo Road, Poynton and more generally to the whole Cheshire East Local Plan and have a number of concerns.

Re: Waterloo Road, Poynton
I am concerned that the local roads will not handle the significant increase in traffic. Note the already dangerous blind junction where Waterloo Road meets Dickens & Moggie Lane or the treacherous twists of Skellorn Lane or simply ask the horse riders on Street Lane about their near misses. As a cyclist these roads are a nightmare to myself and friends and family who also cycle. I dread to think of how these roads would become with heavy building lorries travelling along them.

Significant development off Waterloo Road would increase run-off water which would affect an already poor drainage area, which flooded the Hockley Road are in 2019. United Utilities are frequently in the area clearing the historically poorly maintained drains.

The proposed site encroaches on the western side of the Poynton Coppice Local Nature Reserve, beloved by local people and I personally use the footpath from Coppice Road to cross the fields to enter the Coppice, which would simply be erased. Building on this site will have a detrimental affect on the wildlife in the Nature Reserve which naturally spills out from the reserve into the fields and the surrounding area. I am not aware of any impact study into how the Nature Reserve would be impacted. In our gardens we have wildlife visitors such as badger, foxes, owls, bats, frogs, newts including sightings of great crested newts, sparrowhawks, circling buzzards and many other birds, amphibians and small mammals, which I believe all spill out across the fields from the Coppice as a wildlife corridor to hunt and feed. With a large new housing estate the animals would be restricted, contained and reduced in numbers.

All in all building on the Waterloo Road area would affect a number of groups of people as well as wildlife.

More generally ...
The continual building around Poynton is putting more and more trafffic on our roads and making it impossible to let our young ones safely cycle to school. Additionally older neighbours even with mobility scooters do not have safe routes to navigate through Poynton as the roads are too busy and the footpaths are too narrow and badly maintained to allow practical use. It has been heartbreaking in recent years seeing elderly neighbours unable to get out and about. Poynton's existing inadequate roads, pavements and traffic management needs to be significantly improved before any further building.

Concreting over greenbelt land around Poynton can only increase the risk of flooding as happened in 2019, even with use of french drains on new properties. Through my volunteering with Mersey River Trust, we have been measuring levels of serious contamination in Poynton Brook and this continual building can only increase those levels. Poynton's existing drainage needs to be overhauled before any further building.

Poynton has limited green spaces and the Coppice Local Nature Reserve needs to be protected from all new building, not just at Waterloo Road

With the building to date around Poynton there does not appear to have been any funds or visible improvements to local medical services, schools, roads, utilities and services. I see no accountability for promised funds or that they have been used wisely and therefore cannot have confidence that this plan will be any better.

There appears to be no plan to use up brownfield sites, with the result to just build without infrastructure on Greenbelt land.