8 August 2022
So, not content with pushing for a massive out-of-town shopping and housing development on the peat bog at Danes Moss and giving the go-ahead for house-building on more peatland off Chelford Road, Cheshire East Council has now approved over 300 houses to be built on former greenbelt land at Gaw End, just over the canal from Danes Moss.
On the one hand, Cheshire East Council declares that they want the borough to be carbon-neutral by 2045 (like the UK government’s 2050 target, far too late to mitigate the horrendous climate-change chaos that’s becoming more and more apparent). On the other hand, the council seems hell-bent on destroying most of our peatland (peat is a major “carbon sink”, Britain and Europe’s own answer to the rainforests of the tropics). It is all very well for some local councillors to protest that they are personally opposed to these developments; the political parties they represent have all been complicit in these schemes, either now or under previous regimes.
Similarly, the major political parties have all been keen to push for huge roadbuilding schemes in the area. Councils run (at the time) by Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came together to force through the A555 Airport Link Road (also known as the “SEMMMS road”), designed to increase not only emissions-intensive road transport, but air traffic as well. In the process, ancient woodland at Norbury Hollow was destroyed. All those parties seem to be in favour of “spawn of SEMMMS”, the so-called Poynton bypass, which is destroying a swathe of greenbelt through Poynton and Adlington and will further clog up Macclesfield’s already crowded streets. To the south, the Congleton Link Road is intended to enable building in the Dane Valley floodplain!
We need councillors who will match words with deeds - vote Green next May.
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