“Questo ci inghiottirebbe a Manchester, non ci sarebbe alcun buffer buffer”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/plan-basically-join-stockport-macclesfield-32979310
di insomnimax_99
“Questo ci inghiottirebbe a Manchester, non ci sarebbe alcun buffer buffer”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/plan-basically-join-stockport-macclesfield-32979310
di insomnimax_99
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I too enjoy the buffer gap between the haves and have nots, it makes for a better ambience.
>Aysha Hawcutt, 48, who has lived in the village for 15 years, said: “It would quite literally be in our back gardens – who wants that?
>”For me and for a lot of others, we don’t want this classed as Nimbys.
I’m not a NIMBY, I just don’t want it in my back garden.
Where do these people want houses to be built? On the fucking moon?
Is there anyone who lives anywhere happy with building where they are? Can anyone show a google maps photograb of the area they want to use?
I’m sorry but you can’t live next to a train station that’s less than half an hour from central Manchester and tell me you’re in the countryside. I hate to break it to these people they are *already* in a commuter town.
How many new houses have been built now?! surely enough for our own people 🙄
Evicting farmers and turning productive farmland into housing developments, wiping out more countryside and minimal infrastructure development.
Brilliant. What could go wrong long term.
Once upon a time, Greenwich wasn’t in London. It is what it is
The sad thing is that the Adlington estate contains some of the last bio-diverse ecosystems left on the east Cheshire plain area and it will be a huge blow to loose it. If this development does go ahead, I hope they build in a sustainable manner (they probably won’t).
It is perfectly legitimate to be concerned about local infrastructure being overwhelmed – yes article says developers have promised schools blah blah but we all know they have a “tendency”, once permission has been granted, to go “whoops sorry rising costs, tell yoi what you can have one swimming pool and a disappointing park”.
Other than that, it’s just classic NIMBY.
There is a absolutely a element of snobbery to these sorts of complaints. People who live in those sorts of commuter villages don’t like the idea of being in close proximity to those in the larger towns and cites.
Lived in Poynton previously.
Lovely little village.
Seems crap to want to build so many “same same” houses around there and destroy that lovely village feel
As someone that often fully understands NIMBYs because the planning structure is insane, housing is one of those things that I do not understand.
House will be built, and will be built by other houses due to facilities.
It is definitely advisable having a buffer between yourself and Manchester.
Luckily I have the Pennines and Yorkshire moors keeping the rain and occasional sunshiiiiine at bay.
Sometimes people can’t lead with their strongest argument for their policy. I lived in **Dallas** Texas for a few years and would drive to Fort Worth for classic sight-seeing reasons. On the way there was Arlington, which doesn’t have a mass transit system. The why was much discussed locally – to keep the poor and other wrong people out – being the hushed suggestion. When you searched that, you could not find that in print anywhere, but you kept hearing it. Find ‘poor’ in https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/1jt02pa/cars_in_arlington_texas_not_a_single_piece_of/
For our entire time in Dallas, my partner and I had one car between us (a hatchback) and I’d often take the bus to work myself. Later the light rail too as it was ramped up. When we first moved there, we stayed in a massive Hilton (The Anatole) at a corporate room rate. It was on the side of a freeway. My partner wanted to take a bus into Dallas center one day, and was told “only colored people use the bus”, us being white, but duly took it anyway.
They won’t build facilities, we’ll believe that when we see it. It’ll also be fully car centric and the new builds themselves will be shite.
It’s not a real village anyway, it’s already just a housing estate that happens to have a village hall.
Butcher, baker, green grocer?
No, there’s a used car dealer and a Toby carvery, both of which are only there because people drive past it on the road between Poynton and Macclesfield (which is only 4 miles).
It’s slightly further away, but otherwise indistinguishable for nice suburban area.
A lot of people shouting NIMBY, and I get it, but we really shouldn’t be happy to allow housing to be built in this way. There is no thoughtfulness, they’re just throwing up these shitty estates for profit.
We could be rewilding these areas instead for biodiversity, supporting farmers to make sustainable adaptations to increase soil health and maybe create more reservoirs? This will all help reduce flooding during these wetter winters. We desperately need more green areas if we’re going to adapt to climate change, not less.
Why don’t we look at the sustainable development happening in some cities around Europe? Wouldn’t living in an eco town be amazing? Imagine green roofing, trees and plants instead of concrete, solar panels, cheaper bills & kids could play outside again, reliable public transport! Housing can be built upwards. Build more flats, build on old industrial sites. Planning permission should only be granted to those willing to build sustainably, and ffs don’t allow them to be bought up by greedy corporations; sky-high rents are half the problem.
The annoying thing about this new town is that they plan to make the same mistakes seen in most post war UK housing developments. The land around the station is going to be mostly parkland and “rural edge lower density” to limit impact on the people living in the posh houses that are currently there. Then there’s going to be sprawling “gentle density” much of which will be over 30 minutes walk from the station, meaning many of the people who live there will end up being car dependent – neutering the benefit of centering the development on an underutilised train station.
Despite the plans deliberately treating them with kiddie gloves the residents are still moaning. The town planners should be buying up their houses and densifying 15-20 minutes walking distance around the station.
This is the plan of the development: https://www.adlingtonnewtown.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Community-Engagement-14th-15th-Nov-Map.pdf