Adlington Road residential development on Town Council agenda

So development is accepted and Cheshire East has been able to "protect" large areas of green belt around Wilmslow. Can we have a list of the now protected area of green belt? Can we have publicised the names and wards of any councillors voting in favour so we can dispose of them at the next elections? Is their anyone apart from those with financial interests who wishes this development to proceed?

Could I please take this opportunity to thank Lisa for keeping this in the public domain and all of you who have taken the trouble to support us and object to this planning application - 14/0007M on the Cheshire East Planning portal. Please continue to support us and object. We are faced with 15 years of building work and all of you who use the beautiful Adlington Road on your way to and from school and work will face traffic jams and an eyesore where once it was fields of pasture.

Yes Kathryn. It is beginning to dawn on residents that the congestion will be a permanent fixture. When the Waters factory is up and running with 1200 or so vehicle movements per day and the Chinese funded Airport City with 1.4m sq ft soon to be on our doorstep, plus 800 or so houses in Woodford and 2000 plus in the Handforth settlement we will have several hours of gridlock per day. Vic Barlow picked up on this in November. There seems to be a Government agenda to push down house prices. As a further point if this "development" gets permission who profits from the change of use. Our favourite "developer"? Move somewhere nice while you can still sell your house.

At the friends of Dean Row meeting reported here:
http://bit.ly/1bjZkIT
Council Leader Michael Jones stated categorically that there would be "no building on these fields".

What does "accepting development" mean then? Quote in the editorial above from five councillors. WHO PROFITS?? Any answers?

@Pete Taylor..... Very interesting submission
Michael Jones with the best will in the world may have a considered well place representative view here , that we would all like to believe,...... but..... I class myself as a cynic here,........ If the strength of the Council could be believed this would not even be an agenda item......
(definition; of a cynic being someone an idealist calls a realist ! ).

Who has the best Legal Team to drive this through...?
Who can afford to become embroiled in a costly litigation..?
And is this the best way for Taxation to be spent / forced to defend or otherwise...?

I think some of the pragmatists / considered commentators in these columns, with available time, would be best placed to take on the current Town Councilor vacancy and further represent / support the views of the Row.
And yet we continue to ignore Brown field sites....

Minutes of Public Meeting held on 20th April 2012:

http://bit.ly/1g4JU32

Interesting at the time, very interesting with hindsight.

On the latest Pre-Submission Core Strategy Document there is letter after letter from agents representing Developers/Building Companies asking to be heard by the Inspector at the forthcoming meeting to determine the Local Plan stating their major concerns on how CEC have evidenced the Strategic Sites in that they were chosen before assessment for deliverability and sustainability. The Sites they say 'have physical and infrastructure constraints' and ' not assessed in a SHLAA prior to selection'. They go on to state ' that at the time of selection there was no document in the public domain which made it possible to know, let alone analyse what had led the Council to preferred these and reject others' 'The background paper entitled Pre-Submission Core Strategy Preferred Sites Background overview published in November 2013, is the first time the council has provided any detail of its reason for choosing sites. Given it was published almost a year after the majority of sites which are proposed to be allocated were selected by the council, it appears tacit affirmation of our previous concerns that the Council would only explain the process long after the decision was made'.

A falling out between thieves on which sites are strategic sites yes, but they are re-enforcing what we residents have said all along that this council has chosen these sites before assessment of their planning worth. Seems CEC have not only ignored 28,000 of their voters but large swathes of the building community. The Local Plan is far from being approved yet.

"Residents of Wilmslow" (RoW) has extracted the traffic figures listed below from P.E. Jones
Homes' so called traffic survey for Adlington Road, which we feel will
be of considerable interest to your readers.

These figures supposedly cover the current road use, so one must ask just how
congested it will become if 203 homes are built? This will add a
further 400 vehicles within that community, all of which MUST travel
up & down Adlington Rd, PLUS well over 1500 extra cars sited on the
nearby new Woodford mega development (950 homes planned & counting!).

Extracts from Jones Homes' road traffic "survey" -
- a daily morning traffic queue of 135 cars on the North East spur of
the Adlington Road / Dean Row Road roundabout, without the
development! (table 8.3)
- a daily morning traffic queue of 145 cars on the North East spur of
the Adlington Road / Dean Row Road roundabout, with the development!
(table 8.3)
- a daily morning traffic queue of 105 cars on Dean Row Road trying to
get onto the A34, without the development! (table 8.6)
- a daily morning traffic queue of 138 cars on Dean Row Road trying to
get onto the A34, with the development! (table 8.6)
- a morning traffic queue of 246.4 (!!!!) cars on the North East spur
of the Adlington Road / Dean Row Road roundabout, with the
development! (table 9.2)

And this is the report that Jones says SUPPORTS their development!
It's mad world inhabited by developers and land owners eager for a sale! Apart from Cheshire East, who else does this company think it is kidding?

Note that all of this is BEFORE there is any consideration of the
planned Woodford development! It gets much, much worse once that's
added...

This isn't going to be Green Belt, it's going to be a car park. A member of RoW states "I
drove along Dean Row Road from west to east at 5pm this Monday: the
traffic was queued nose to tail from the Adlington Road roundabout all
the way past the Handforth roundabout."

It seems no-one has twigged any of this yet, or if they have they are
keeping very quiet about it. These shocking traffic figures, when the
public becomes fully aware, will surely cause a huge uproar.

It is all very well for CEC to impose a large development, but we have
to have some infrastructure, roads, schools, medical services etc to
support it all! No attempt has been made to address any of the very
wide range of public concerns this proposed myopic development is throwing up.

Incidentally, some local residents are commissioning thir own traffic
survey; this will be over a week or more, unlike the Jones survey
which lasted a much shorter time span, and will be entirely
independent of commercial requirements and pressures!

RoW believes you will find these frightening traffic figures of
interest, we know the residents along & around Adlington Road,
Wilmslow Park & Dean Row do.

Residents of Wilmslow's position on this proposed development is that it is totally uneccessary as Wilmslow has built, being built,has planning permissions that take the score to over 200 - in just three years of the 20 year plan, during which ilmslow is required to build 400 homes. We are so obviously well above target. Therefore RoW says there is no need or requirement for any further speculative development on Adlington Road nor any of the town's precious Green Belt i.e. at Royal London which wants to build yet another office block (it has over 10000sq ft of long term empty offices, plus a further c130000 empty office space around the town. So why more?), plus a highrise hotel (local hotels do not reach 75% occupancy).

Greed allied to the attitude of "damn the locals" are the reasons!

WTC planning committee have unanimously rejected the Jones plan for Adlington Rd this evening.
Still a long way to go. CEC strategic planning committee has yet to meet and Jones is reviewing their site plan. That will then go back to WTC planning committee.
Residents still need to submit their objections. Please go to Cheshire East Council planning web site and search for 14/0007M
There are a number of sections that you can use, plus the general comments box.