Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to the above report.

(Councillor R West, the Ward, Councillor H Murray, the Neighbouring Ward Councillor, Town Councillor Bartos, representing Poynton Town Council, Parish Councillor Jim Wenham, Chairman of Adlington Parish Council, Stephen Taylor, representing Woodford Community Council and John Knight, an objector attended the meeting and spoke in respect of the application).

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet Member for Strategic Communities be recommended to approve the following six responses:-

1. Request the deferral of the SPD from progressing to adoption until the document is more compliant with national planning policy and Stockport’s own Core Strategy.

2. Request that the total development area be limited to the full extent of the approved Brownfield areas (the Major Existing Developed Areas) and that the other parts of the site currently proposed for development and lying within the adopted Green Belt be removed from the SPD.

3. Request that some part of the site be identified and allocated for a range of employment uses, either as conversion of existing buildings or redevelopment.

4. Request that a full scheme of public transport improvements be investigated, costed and included in the SPD, dependent upon the scale and use of built development and given the site’s rural nature.

5. Request that further work is undertaken on all wider community impacts (Secondary education, including the 6^th form, medical, health and other social facilities) and appropriate mitigation measures introduced into the SPD.

6. Request that further traffic modelling and impact studies are undertaken before the SPD is progressed and that proposals are brought forward to address the impacts on the local road network include traffic management.

7. Request that a Glossary is added to the final document to aid understanding of technical terms.

(Prior to consideration of the following item, Councillor C Thorley left the meeting and did not return).