stop adlington new town
The government “warmly welcomes” all 12 proposals for New Towns one of which involves the destruction of 970 hectares of Green Belt.
Adlington was named as a village in the Domesday Book and is home to around 1000 souls, a rural community where night skies are visible. The settlement has been chosen by the New Town Taskforce as a proposed site for up to 20,000 houses to be built on farming land between existing towns Macclesfield and Poynton.
Adlington New Town if approved by the Government would displace 6 farms and destroy 970 hectares (2,300 acres or 4000 football pitches!) of Strategic Green Belt comprising fields for grazing and arable together with ancient hedges and bluebell woods. Strategic Green Belt is designed, amongst other things, to prevent urban sprawl and to encourage urban regeneration of derelict land. The proposal has been made despite there being many brown field sites in East Cheshire and Manchester in dire need of regeneration.
The fields and woods, some of the most ancient in the UK, have a rich habitat: herds of deer, setts of badgers, red speckled woodpeckers including the endangered great crested newt.
Cheshire Countryside Trust are opposed and consider that “the scale of the proposed new town is not sustainable in this location as the impact on Cheshire’s wildlife and the quality of the natural environment will be significant”.
Once Green Belt of this size is lost it is lost for ever, we have a duty to future generations to stop this. If it happens here all Green Belt is under threat.
We are opposing Adlington New Town on the following grounds:
This proposal will have a significant detrimental effect on our nearby town Macclesfield where investment is severely lacking - killing an old town to create a new town.
Our neighbouring villages, Poynton, Bollington and Prestbury will be changed in character for ever, the infrastructure, both rail and roads are stretched now - it is not unusual to take over 30 mins to travel 4 miles by road - another 20,000 cars will cause unimaginable grid lock.
We will be working with other groups collaboratively with other interested parties who oppose Adlington New Town and any assistance will be welcomed.
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