Local plan scoping consultation

Bollington Civic Society warmly welcomes the introduction from June of the process for completing a new Cheshire East Local Plan. We have considered the Scoping report and note that it takes into account the government's Local plan purposes:

National policy requires the new local plan to make provision for housing, employment, retail and other town centre uses, minerals, waste management and the infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.

We also need a Local Plan to identify sufficient land for 5 years of our new housing number requirement to ensure the community has sufficient control to ensure its Local Plan can be maintained in the face of possibly inappropriate developer pressure.
Given the complexity of the Local Plan and its comprehensiveness and its purpose of covering the next 15 years up to 2045 the Society thinks that some elements of the Plan require a risk based approach with the broad risks of climate change and its effects like flooding, deaths through overheating and uncontrollable wild fires being taken into account with clear ameliorating policies including land use for emergency provision of support for residents possibly directly affected by such risks.

As well as climate change, there may well be other risks that should be considered:

Poor utillity provision in terms of basic services such as water and sewage disposal and consequent threats to areas of open water. Insufficient constancy of electricity and gas supplies particularly given the huge resource use by new Data Centre provision to support Artificial Intelligence.

And given the recent emphasis on the need for increased consideration of national defence, what land uses should be set aside for provision for increased military resources, if any, and the resources necessary from the protection of citizens in the case of armed conflict?

With the planned economic growth that is at the centre of the government's purposes in ensuring the legal necessity of Local Plans there will be threats of urban pressure and the consequent increased level of vehicle traffic of a logistical as well as employment and domestic use on all aspects of the open countryside, including Green Belt through the recently established Grey Belt allocations. The Local Plan needs to clearly determine what areas of Green Belt are suitable for developments of various kinds and ensure that in larger developments, the golden thread of social housing provision and open space is clearly and strictly adhered to. While ensuring the Green Belt purposes of avoiding urban sprawl, protecting historic communities and

But to sustain any building of this kind we need employment. The Combined Mayoralty of Cheshire and Warrington will provide the strategic overview of where commercial investment will develop and

New developments could include restrictions on all but electric vehicles to prevent pollution as well as heat pumps . good insulation and air conditioning.
New community protections should be used to protect urban green spaces. These spaces become ever more important for physical and mental health as the insidious creep of 'Grey Belt' erodes the integrity of green belt boundaries that have protected our communities previously.

There is a need for new communities, places for living with the external services we expect to find to enrich our lives, a variety of retail provision, educational facilities, health facilities, sports and cultural societies, perhaps even a theatre or cinema and the odd pub and decent restaurant, and they should be planned as such and we would hope Cheshire East will consider such plans. What is the alternative provided by private developers? We have examples all over our Borough. Patches of pretend executive homes squashed together on tiny patches of land in the midst of open countryside. Completely unsustainable without at least one car per adult and those cars choke tiny rural lanes, meaning no public transport can possibly be sustained. Though now with ring roads appearing as in Congleton and Poynton and soon Middlewich. These houses can march over green fields until they reach the road boundary with no supportive infrastructure whatsoever.

Cheshire East has developed over the last few years a creditable record in providing social housing. In the new Local Plan they need to clearly distinguish between social housing provided eventually for the private sector and socially rented housing that will remain in the public sector.

One weakness in the health section is the lack of a strong supporting set of aims for a variety of sporting activities including conscious support for walking on our magnificent network of public footpaths. There should be plans for developing rural cycle paths available for cycling and mountain biking.
Although 'active travel links walking and cycling as practical activities' they do not naturally mix well on narrow paths for participants and therefore, conscious planning to accommodate both activities needs to be applied.

But the great weakness in the plans statements surrounds private motor car, campervans and the ever increasing size of such vehicles, which, through consequent increases in weight play havoc with our road surfaces and quickly erode them when any weakness appears. Their flow and speed must be curbed in urban areas where pedestrians, who, in theory, have priority on our roads as well as our pavements, need the engineering support of safe controlled crossing to reclaim communities particularly in communities of modest size. Highways officers need to play a much stronger role in long term plans to protect communities and to create areas where pedestrians can feel safe.

Bollington Civic Society warmly welcomes the introduction from June of the process for completing a new Cheshire East Local Plan. We have considered the Scoping report and note that it takes into account the government's Local plan purposes:

National policy requires the new local plan to make provision for housing, employment, retail and other town centre uses, minerals, waste management and the infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.

We also need a Local Plan to identify sufficient land for 5 years of our new housing number requirement to ensure the community has sufficient control to ensure its Local Plan can be maintained in the face of possibly inappropriate developer pressure.
Given the complexity of the Local Plan and its comprehensiveness and its purpose of covering the next 15 years up to 2045 the Society thinks that some elements of the Plan require a risk based approach with the broad risks of climate change and its effects like flooding, deaths through overheating and uncontrollable wild fires being taken into account with clear ameliorating policies including land use for emergency provision of support for residents possibly directly affected by such risks.

As well as climate change, there may well be other risks that should be considered:

Poor utillity provision in terms of basic services such as water and sewage disposal and consequent threats to areas of open water. Insufficient constancy of electricity and gas supplies particularly given the huge resource use by new Data Centre provision to support Artificial Intelligence.

And given the recent emphasis on the need for increased consideration of national defence, what land uses should be set aside for provision for increased military resources, if any, and the resources necessary from the protection of citizens in the case of armed conflict?

With the planned economic growth that is at the centre of the government's purposes in ensuring the legal necessity of Local Plans there will be threats of urban pressure and the consequent increased level of vehicle traffic of a logistical as well as employment and domestic use on all aspects of the open countryside, including Green Belt through the recently established Grey Belt allocations. The Local Plan needs to clearly determine what areas of Green Belt are suitable for developments of various kinds and ensure that in larger developments, the golden thread of social housing provision and open space is clearly and strictly adhered to. While ensuring the Green Belt purposes of avoiding urban sprawl, protecting historic communities and

But to sustain any building of this kind we need employment. The Combined Mayoralty of Cheshire and Warrington will provide the strategic overview of where commercial investment will develop and

New developments could include restrictions on all but electric vehicles to prevent pollution as well as heat pumps . good insulation and air conditioning.
New community protections should be used to protect urban green spaces. These spaces become ever more important for physical and mental health as the insidious creep of 'Grey Belt' erodes the integrity of green belt boundaries that have protected our communities previously.

There is a need for new communities, places for living with the external services we expect to find to enrich our lives, a variety of retail provision, educational facilities, health facilities, sports and cultural societies, perhaps even a theatre or cinema and the odd pub and decent restaurant, and they should be planned as such and we would hope Cheshire East will consider such plans. What is the alternative provided by private developers? We have examples all over our Borough. Patches of pretend executive homes squashed together on tiny patches of land in the midst of open countryside. Completely unsustainable without at least one car per adult and those cars choke tiny rural lanes, meaning no public transport can possibly be sustained. Though now with ring roads appearing as in Congleton and Poynton and soon Middlewich. These houses can march over green fields until they reach the road boundary with no supportive infrastructure whatsoever.

Cheshire East has developed over the last few years a creditable record in providing social housing. In the new Local Plan they need to clearly distinguish between social housing provided eventually for the private sector and socially rented housing that will remain in the public sector.

One weakness in the health section is the lack of a strong supporting set of aims for a variety of sporting activities including conscious support for walking on our magnificent network of public footpaths. There should be plans for developing rural cycle paths available for cycling and mountain biking.
Although 'active travel links walking and cycling as practical activities' they do not naturally mix well on narrow paths for participants and therefore, conscious planning to accommodate both activities needs to be applied.

But the great weakness in the plans statements surrounds private motor car, campervans and the ever increasing size of such vehicles, which, through consequent increases in weight play havoc with our road surfaces and quickly erode them when any weakness appears. Their flow and speed must be curbed in urban areas where pedestrians, who, in theory, have priority on our roads as well as our pavements, need the engineering support of safe controlled crossing to reclaim communities particularly in communities of modest size. Highways officers need to play a much stronger role in long term plans to protect communities and to create areas where pedestrians can feel safe.

Bollington Civic Society warmly welcomes the introduction from June of the process for completing a new Cheshire East Local Plan. We have considered the Scoping report and note that it takes into account the government's Local plan purposes:

National policy requires the new local plan to make provision for housing, employment, retail and other town centre uses, minerals, waste management and the infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.

We also need a Local Plan to identify sufficient land for 5 years of our new housing number requirement to ensure the community has sufficient control to ensure its Local Plan can be maintained in the face of possibly inappropriate developer pressure.
Given the complexity of the Local Plan and its comprehensiveness and its purpose of covering the next 15 years up to 2045 the Society thinks that some elements of the Plan require a risk based approach with the broad risks of climate change and its effects like flooding, deaths through overheating and uncontrollable wild fires being taken into account with clear ameliorating policies including land use for emergency provision of support for residents possibly directly affected by such risks.

As well as climate change, there may well be other risks that should be considered:

Poor utillity provision in terms of basic services such as water and sewage disposal and consequent threats to areas of open water. Insufficient constancy of electricity and gas supplies particularly given the huge resource use by new Data Centre provision to support Artificial Intelligence.

And given the recent emphasis on the need for increased consideration of national defence, what land uses should be set aside for provision for increased military resources, if any, and the resources necessary from the protection of citizens in the case of armed conflict?

With the planned economic growth that is at the centre of the government's purposes in ensuring the legal necessity of Local Plans there will be threats of urban pressure and the consequent increased level of vehicle traffic of a logistical as well as employment and domestic use on all aspects of the open countryside, including Green Belt through the recently established Grey Belt allocations. The Local Plan needs to clearly determine what areas of Green Belt are suitable for developments of various kinds and ensure that in larger developments, the golden thread of social housing provision and open space is clearly and strictly adhered to. While ensuring the Green Belt purposes of avoiding urban sprawl, protecting historic communities and

But to sustain any building of this kind we need employment. The Combined Mayoralty of Cheshire and Warrington will provide the strategic overview of where commercial investment will develop and

New developments could include restrictions on all but electric vehicles to prevent pollution as well as heat pumps . good insulation and air conditioning.
New community protections should be used to protect urban green spaces. These spaces become ever more important for physical and mental health as the insidious creep of 'Grey Belt' erodes the integrity of green belt boundaries that have protected our communities previously.

There is a need for new communities, places for living with the external services we expect to find to enrich our lives, a variety of retail provision, educational facilities, health facilities, sports and cultural societies, perhaps even a theatre or cinema and the odd pub and decent restaurant, and they should be planned as such and we would hope Cheshire East will consider such plans. What is the alternative provided by private developers? We have examples all over our Borough. Patches of pretend executive homes squashed together on tiny patches of land in the midst of open countryside. Completely unsustainable without at least one car per adult and those cars choke tiny rural lanes, meaning no public transport can possibly be sustained. Though now with ring roads appearing as in Congleton and Poynton and soon Middlewich. These houses can march over green fields until they reach the road boundary with no supportive infrastructure whatsoever.

Cheshire East has developed over the last few years a creditable record in providing social housing. In the new Local Plan they need to clearly distinguish between social housing provided eventually for the private sector and socially rented housing that will remain in the public sector.

One weakness in the health section is the lack of a strong supporting set of aims for a variety of sporting activities including conscious support for walking on our magnificent network of public footpaths. There should be plans for developing rural cycle paths available for cycling and mountain biking.
Although 'active travel links walking and cycling as practical activities' they do not naturally mix well on narrow paths for participants and therefore, conscious planning to accommodate both activities needs to be applied.

But the great weakness in the plans statements surrounds private motor car, campervans and the ever increasing size of such vehicles, which, through consequent increases in weight play havoc with our road surfaces and quickly erode them when any weakness appears. Their flow and speed must be curbed in urban areas where pedestrians, who, in theory, have priority on our roads as well as our pavements, need the engineering support of safe controlled crossing to reclaim communities particularly in communities of modest size. Highways officers need to play a much stronger role in long term plans to protect communities and to create areas where pedestrians can feel safe.

Bollington Civic Society warmly welcomes the introduction from June of the process for completing a new Cheshire East Local Plan. We have considered the Scoping report and note that it takes into account the government's Local plan purposes:

National policy requires the new local plan to make provision for housing, employment, retail and other town centre uses, minerals, waste management and the infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.

We also need a Local Plan to identify sufficient land for 5 years of our new housing number requirement to ensure the community has sufficient control to ensure its Local Plan can be maintained in the face of possibly inappropriate developer pressure.
Given the complexity of the Local Plan and its comprehensiveness and its purpose of covering the next 15 years up to 2045 the Society thinks that some elements of the Plan require a risk based approach with the broad risks of climate change and its effects like flooding, deaths through overheating and uncontrollable wild fires being taken into account with clear ameliorating policies including land use for emergency provision of support for residents possibly directly affected by such risks.

As well as climate change, there may well be other risks that should be considered:

Poor utillity provision in terms of basic services such as water and sewage disposal and consequent threats to areas of open water. Insufficient constancy of electricity and gas supplies particularly given the huge resource use by new Data Centre provision to support Artificial Intelligence.

And given the recent emphasis on the need for increased consideration of national defence, what land uses should be set aside for provision for increased military resources, if any, and the resources necessary from the protection of citizens in the case of armed conflict?

With the planned economic growth that is at the centre of the government's purposes in ensuring the legal necessity of Local Plans there will be threats of urban pressure and the consequent increased level of vehicle traffic of a logistical as well as employment and domestic use on all aspects of the open countryside, including Green Belt through the recently established Grey Belt allocations. The Local Plan needs to clearly determine what areas of Green Belt are suitable for developments of various kinds and ensure that in larger developments, the golden thread of social housing provision and open space is clearly and strictly adhered to. While ensuring the Green Belt purposes of avoiding urban sprawl, protecting historic communities and

But to sustain any building of this kind we need employment. The Combined Mayoralty of Cheshire and Warrington will provide the strategic overview of where commercial investment will develop and

New developments could include restrictions on all but electric vehicles to prevent pollution as well as heat pumps . good insulation and air conditioning.
New community protections should be used to protect urban green spaces. These spaces become ever more important for physical and mental health as the insidious creep of 'Grey Belt' erodes the integrity of green belt boundaries that have protected our communities previously.

There is a need for new communities, places for living with the external services we expect to find to enrich our lives, a variety of retail provision, educational facilities, health facilities, sports and cultural societies, perhaps even a theatre or cinema and the odd pub and decent restaurant, and they should be planned as such and we would hope Cheshire East will consider such plans. What is the alternative provided by private developers? We have examples all over our Borough. Patches of pretend executive homes squashed together on tiny patches of land in the midst of open countryside. Completely unsustainable without at least one car per adult and those cars choke tiny rural lanes, meaning no public transport can possibly be sustained. Though now with ring roads appearing as in Congleton and Poynton and soon Middlewich. These houses can march over green fields until they reach the road boundary with no supportive infrastructure whatsoever.

Cheshire East has developed over the last few years a creditable record in providing social housing. In the new Local Plan they need to clearly distinguish between social housing provided eventually for the private sector and socially rented housing that will remain in the public sector.

One weakness in the health section is the lack of a strong supporting set of aims for a variety of sporting activities including conscious support for walking on our magnificent network of public footpaths. There should be plans for developing rural cycle paths available for cycling and mountain biking.
Although 'active travel links walking and cycling as practical activities' they do not naturally mix well on narrow paths for participants and therefore, conscious planning to accommodate both activities needs to be applied.

But the great weakness in the plans statements surrounds private motor car, campervans and the ever increasing size of such vehicles, which, through consequent increases in weight play havoc with our road surfaces and quickly erode them when any weakness appears. Their flow and speed must be curbed in urban areas where pedestrians, who, in theory, have priority on our roads as well as our pavements, need the engineering support of safe controlled crossing to reclaim communities particularly in communities of modest size. Highways officers need to play a much stronger role in long term plans to protect communities and to create areas where pedestrians can feel safe.

Bollington Civic Society warmly welcomes the introduction from June of the process for completing a new Cheshire East Local Plan. We have considered the Scoping report and note that it takes into account the government's Local plan purposes:

National policy requires the new local plan to make provision for housing, employment, retail and other town centre uses, minerals, waste management and the infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.

We also need a Local Plan to identify sufficient land for 5 years of our new housing number requirement to ensure the community has sufficient control to ensure its Local Plan can be maintained in the face of possibly inappropriate developer pressure.
Given the complexity of the Local Plan and its comprehensiveness and its purpose of covering the next 15 years up to 2045 the Society thinks that some elements of the Plan require a risk based approach with the broad risks of climate change and its effects like flooding, deaths through overheating and uncontrollable wild fires being taken into account with clear ameliorating policies including land use for emergency provision of support for residents possibly directly affected by such risks.

As well as climate change, there may well be other risks that should be considered:

Poor utillity provision in terms of basic services such as water and sewage disposal and consequent threats to areas of open water. Insufficient constancy of electricity and gas supplies particularly given the huge resource use by new Data Centre provision to support Artificial Intelligence.

And given the recent emphasis on the need for increased consideration of national defence, what land uses should be set aside for provision for increased military resources, if any, and the resources necessary from the protection of citizens in the case of armed conflict?

With the planned economic growth that is at the centre of the government's purposes in ensuring the legal necessity of Local Plans there will be threats of urban pressure and the consequent increased level of vehicle traffic of a logistical as well as employment and domestic use on all aspects of the open countryside, including Green Belt through the recently established Grey Belt allocations. The Local Plan needs to clearly determine what areas of Green Belt are suitable for developments of various kinds and ensure that in larger developments, the golden thread of social housing provision and open space is clearly and strictly adhered to. While ensuring the Green Belt purposes of avoiding urban sprawl, protecting historic communities and

But to sustain any building of this kind we need employment. The Combined Mayoralty of Cheshire and Warrington will provide the strategic overview of where commercial investment will develop and

New developments could include restrictions on all but electric vehicles to prevent pollution as well as heat pumps . good insulation and air conditioning.
New community protections should be used to protect urban green spaces. These spaces become ever more important for physical and mental health as the insidious creep of 'Grey Belt' erodes the integrity of green belt boundaries that have protected our communities previously.

There is a need for new communities, places for living with the external services we expect to find to enrich our lives, a variety of retail provision, educational facilities, health facilities, sports and cultural societies, perhaps even a theatre or cinema and the odd pub and decent restaurant, and they should be planned as such and we would hope Cheshire East will consider such plans. What is the alternative provided by private developers? We have examples all over our Borough. Patches of pretend executive homes squashed together on tiny patches of land in the midst of open countryside. Completely unsustainable without at least one car per adult and those cars choke tiny rural lanes, meaning no public transport can possibly be sustained. Though now with ring roads appearing as in Congleton and Poynton and soon Middlewich. These houses can march over green fields until they reach the road boundary with no supportive infrastructure whatsoever.

Cheshire East has developed over the last few years a creditable record in providing social housing. In the new Local Plan they need to clearly distinguish between social housing provided eventually for the private sector and socially rented housing that will remain in the public sector.

One weakness in the health section is the lack of a strong supporting set of aims for a variety of sporting activities including conscious support for walking on our magnificent network of public footpaths. There should be plans for developing rural cycle paths available for cycling and mountain biking.
Although 'active travel links walking and cycling as practical activities' they do not naturally mix well on narrow paths for participants and therefore, conscious planning to accommodate both activities needs to be applied.

But the great weakness in the plans statements surrounds private motor car, campervans and the ever increasing size of such vehicles, which, through consequent increases in weight play havoc with our road surfaces and quickly erode them when any weakness appears. Their flow and speed must be curbed in urban areas where pedestrians, who, in theory, have priority on our roads as well as our pavements, need the engineering support of safe controlled crossing to reclaim communities particularly in communities of modest size. Highways officers need to play a much stronger role in long term plans to protect communities and to create areas where pedestrians can feel safe.

Bollington Civic Society warmly welcomes the introduction from June of the process for completing a new Cheshire East Local Plan. We have considered the Scoping report and note that it takes into account the government's Local plan purposes:

National policy requires the new local plan to make provision for housing, employment, retail and other town centre uses, minerals, waste management and the infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.

We also need a Local Plan to identify sufficient land for 5 years of our new housing number requirement to ensure the community has sufficient control to ensure its Local Plan can be maintained in the face of possibly inappropriate developer pressure.
Given the complexity of the Local Plan and its comprehensiveness and its purpose of covering the next 15 years up to 2045 the Society thinks that some elements of the Plan require a risk based approach with the broad risks of climate change and its effects like flooding, deaths through overheating and uncontrollable wild fires being taken into account with clear ameliorating policies including land use for emergency provision of support for residents possibly directly affected by such risks.

As well as climate change, there may well be other risks that should be considered:

Poor utillity provision in terms of basic services such as water and sewage disposal and consequent threats to areas of open water. Insufficient constancy of electricity and gas supplies particularly given the huge resource use by new Data Centre provision to support Artificial Intelligence.

And given the recent emphasis on the need for increased consideration of national defence, what land uses should be set aside for provision for increased military resources, if any, and the resources necessary from the protection of citizens in the case of armed conflict?

With the planned economic growth that is at the centre of the government's purposes in ensuring the legal necessity of Local Plans there will be threats of urban pressure and the consequent increased level of vehicle traffic of a logistical as well as employment and domestic use on all aspects of the open countryside, including Green Belt through the recently established Grey Belt allocations. The Local Plan needs to clearly determine what areas of Green Belt are suitable for developments of various kinds and ensure that in larger developments, the golden thread of social housing provision and open space is clearly and strictly adhered to. While ensuring the Green Belt purposes of avoiding urban sprawl, protecting historic communities and

But to sustain any building of this kind we need employment. The Combined Mayoralty of Cheshire and Warrington will provide the strategic overview of where commercial investment will develop and

New developments could include restrictions on all but electric vehicles to prevent pollution as well as heat pumps . good insulation and air conditioning.
New community protections should be used to protect urban green spaces. These spaces become ever more important for physical and mental health as the insidious creep of 'Grey Belt' erodes the integrity of green belt boundaries that have protected our communities previously.

There is a need for new communities, places for living with the external services we expect to find to enrich our lives, a variety of retail provision, educational facilities, health facilities, sports and cultural societies, perhaps even a theatre or cinema and the odd pub and decent restaurant, and they should be planned as such and we would hope Cheshire East will consider such plans. What is the alternative provided by private developers? We have examples all over our Borough. Patches of pretend executive homes squashed together on tiny patches of land in the midst of open countryside. Completely unsustainable without at least one car per adult and those cars choke tiny rural lanes, meaning no public transport can possibly be sustained. Though now with ring roads appearing as in Congleton and Poynton and soon Middlewich. These houses can march over green fields until they reach the road boundary with no supportive infrastructure whatsoever.

Cheshire East has developed over the last few years a creditable record in providing social housing. In the new Local Plan they need to clearly distinguish between social housing provided eventually for the private sector and socially rented housing that will remain in the public sector.

One weakness in the health section is the lack of a strong supporting set of aims for a variety of sporting activities including conscious support for walking on our magnificent network of public footpaths. There should be plans for developing rural cycle paths available for cycling and mountain biking.
Although 'active travel links walking and cycling as practical activities' they do not naturally mix well on narrow paths for participants and therefore, conscious planning to accommodate both activities needs to be applied.

But the great weakness in the plans statements surrounds private motor car, campervans and the ever increasing size of such vehicles, which, through consequent increases in weight play havoc with our road surfaces and quickly erode them when any weakness appears. Their flow and speed must be curbed in urban areas where pedestrians, who, in theory, have priority on our roads as well as our pavements, need the engineering support of safe controlled crossing to reclaim communities particularly in communities of modest size. Highways officers need to play a much stronger role in long term plans to protect communities and to create areas where pedestrians can feel safe.