Local plan scoping consultation

Dear Sir,
I have looked at the map showing the areas in and around Adlington that may be used for large housing estates in future. I have huge concerns about this on a number of fronts 1. The local infrastructure struggles to cope with the local population in Adlington as it is now. A large increase in housing would strain this further. Specifically, the provision in both primary and secondary health care is currently inadequate, with long waits for a GP appointment, physiotherapy, occupational therapy etc, and both Macclesfield DGH and Stepping Hill having crammed Emergency Departments and long waits to see a gynaecologist and ENT [personal information redacted] and no doubt this applies to other specialties too.
Our roads are already overcrowded, and although there is a train station in Adlington, not many trains stop there and I understand the rail network does not have the capacity for this to be increased, so any additional population is likely to add to our already congested roads.
Large numbers of extra houses mean more sewage - will the local treatment works cope? I am aware that there have been spills into local rivers and additional volume can only exacerbate the problem.
I can only assume that our overstretched local fire, police and ambulance services would suffer similar problems if demand on their service increased - no room for increased capacity without significantly increased funding, which despite promises seems unlikely to materialise, just like the promised traffic calming measures we were promised after the opening of the Poynton Relief Road.

2. Loss of farming land: the UK’s food security is rather precarious, as indicated by the scarcity of some foods in COVID when imports reduced. It is therefore nonsensical to make the problem worse by concreting over good farmland which is currently being used for food production.

3. Loss of habitat: We need to be improving diversity, not diminishing it. Long-established hedgerows and other habitat will be lost to the detriment of our local environment, and more importantly will contribute to the deterioration of our climate. Anyone living through the last hot dry summer must admit we need to protect our planet more, not destroy green bits of it

4. Flooding: Concreting over fields and other green space will only increase the risk of significant flooding around the river and streams that flow through Adlington.

Please consider these comments - I am most concerned that large amounts of extra housing in Adlington would be extremely detrimental to the environment, and would prove an impossible challenge for our local infrastructure.