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THE cottage on Charlotte Street West that can’t revert to being a home.
THE cottage on Charlotte Street West that can’t revert to being a home.

Housing policy is just stupid

Vic Barlow
5/10/2005

MACCLESFIELD Borough Council has approved the building of 44 homes in Langley village on a site no bigger than a football field.

The development will put a massive strain on a tiny community swelling its population by over 50 per cent.

Henbury village is about to have a new housing estate in their midst whether they want one or not.

All this in the middle of a housing moratorium. The theory (excuse) is to provide 'affordable' homes.

Now, there can hardly be a more 'affordable home' than a small, terraced house so renovating one, especially after it falling into disrepair, should be no problem but, alas, not so.

With logic that would defy the Enigma code MBC have decreed that an unoccupied house in Charlotte Street West cannot be restored due to the housing moratorium.

Many decisions MBC make are questionable but this takes stupidity to a totally new level.

Take a look, if you will, at the police station recently built in the centre of Macclesfield's so-called restoration area.

A more inappropriate building you could not imagine yet Cheshire Police encountered no resistance whatsoever, meanwhile residents of Henbury and Langley are having housing developments they don't want thrust upon them.

Whilst, in Charlotte Street West, sits a small unobtrusive mid-terrace denied sympathetic restoration because MBC are implementing a 'housing moratorium.'

You would have got more sense out of the residents of Parkside.

  • THE views expressed on this page are those of Vic Barlow and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Express.

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   We have recently had a application for a new NHS dentist and home marked for refusal under the moratorium guidelines and the ensuing planning meeting debacle was covered in todays Wilmslow Express. It seems strange that given the national shortage of NHS dentists that MBC and CCC should be so against this development.
Mr Brown, Alderley edge
27/10/2005 at 11:01
   I sent a letter to Macclesfield council some time ago asking why green fields were being submitted for building projects when the town has numerous pieces of land which have been empty for many years "(after demolision of buildings ) i.e. Churchill way.Sunderland street Garden street.These are brown field sites that have all the services to hand . Roads, drains power ,and would make ideal high density housing for people desiring a town location. Brown fields reused for housing could possibly attract government assistance i.e. vat back John Prescott`s carrot.

Regards Ian .
IAN NORMAN, macclesfield sk117yj
5/10/2005 at 11:46
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