Just before Christmas Greater Manchester councils added a few weeks more to the consultation on the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework – the new deadline is 16 January 2017.
We only have a few days left to get our voices hear before so much of our precious Green Belt land will be lost for ever.
Please: Sign the Petition – and remind your friends, family and neighbours.
And even send in your own personal response to the consultation – more information on how you can do this below.
The GMSF sets out how Greater Manchester Councils plan to provide the land to build an extra 227,000 houses over the next 25 years. (To put that in context the whole of the Borough of Bury currently has just over 75,000 houses…)
Across Greater Manchester, just 8.2% of Green Belt land is proposed to be destroyed. Bury fares very badly, and if these plans go ahead 20% of our precious green belt land would be lost. In Prestwich a shocking 46.7% of green belt land will be lost. In the Whitefield/Unsworth area 49.1% of green belt land will be lost.
The proposals include:
In the Whitefield/Unsworth/Prestwich areas:
A ‘Northen Gateway’proposal – for a new development ‘bigger than Trafford Park’ on both sides of the M62. This includes 3,300 houses to the south of the motorway (all the green belt land currently around Simister and Bowlee)
600 houses to the north of the M60 near Mode Hill Lane in Whitefield
A massive industrial employment development North of the M62.
In the Bury/Radcliffe area and to the north of Bury:
3,400 new houses in land between Bury and Radcliffe around Elton Reservoir
1,250 new homes north and south of Walshaw Road between Bury and Tottington
As well as smaller developments at Gin Hall, Holcombe Brook and Seedfield
The Labour Party in Bury made a very clear commitment in it’s Local Government Manifesto:
“Bury Labour Group will defend the greenbelt and do all we can to stop development of this precious resource.” They are now letting people down by abandoning their previous promise, with the Council Leader signing up to the proposals.
The Lib Dems in Bury are totally opposed to this wholesale destruction of our Green Belt land. We DO need more homes, but we should use brownfield sites, empty houses and existing unbuilt planning permissions FIRST without destroying our precious countryside.
As well as signing the petition, it would be great if as many people as possible could send in their own personal objections. Details of how to do this are here.
The Save Bury’s Green Belt Campaign have done this excellent guide to how to object here.
We should be keeping the lovely countryside/green belt of Bury. We need to also preserve the local wildlife.
Leave our green belt land GREEN!!!!! We are surrounded by MOTORWAYS!!! We need MORE trees planted, MORE green land, NOT LESS!!!! Pollution is so high in this area, we do not need to attract more traffic!!! So many people have breathing disorders,PLEASE don’t make it even worse for them!
All the nimby,s come out to play, as I said previously, if the proposed housing estate had been in drinkwater park etc, nobody in sinister would of given jack, and you will find sinister dwellers are all probably remain voters, lol,reap what you sow, I await mr lewis,s email, but then again no I wont
No
Leave the greenbelt alone
I object to building on green belt land in Whitefield near Old Hall Lane . It will spoil the peaceful area and chaos will be on all roads and drains won’t cope.
Before building more houses, make sure that the infrastructure to support all the extra people is in place! Roads, health care, public transport, schools, jobs.
Keep off the green belt
We have only moved into Walshaw 4 weeks ago and had we been aware of these proposals we may have decided to move elsewhere. We moved so our children and dogs would have some lovely walks near to the house. The fact that these proposals were not made public is outrageous. It will spoil beautiful green land, something that Bury is already lacking.
I think you’re taking too much land in the borough of Bury. Yes, new affordable housing is needed, but putting houses in the proposed areas will ensure prices are affordable only to the relatively rich. The cost will not allow first time buyers to move into these properties.
Try using the brown belt land instead. There are many locations right across the borough that are currently an eyesore, and could be developed into housing estates which would be affordable to the people who really need it.
Continual erosion of green belt areas is not in the long term interests of the community as a whole. Previous agreement that green belt land should not be used for building houses needs to be the primary consideration.
To save the green belt I would like to know which side are our Bury’s MPs on, also I would like to know each Bury councillor who will vote to give away this land.
Then I can vote against that councillor.
So many politicians across the UK are out of touch with the British people.
Tell me how I can do this and I’ll help.
Best wishes,
Ron.