As I’ve outlined on this website, I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months working with residents who are very concerned about the impact of proposals in the Labour Council’s “Core Strategy” – from residents in Walkden and Little Hulton concerned about plans to build on Burgess Farm and at Cutacre, communities in Roe Green, Worsley and Winton worried about motorway expansion, to local people in Irlam, Cadishead and Peel Green who are rightly appalled by Labour’s plans to bulldoze Barton Moss.
One of the main reasons that these proposals have seen the light of day is because the Government has imposed central planning targets on our local communities. Under Labour’s current plans, this will leave us with tens of thousands of empty tiny flats, and acres of green belt and green field sites destroyed.
A Conservative Government would abolish these unfeasible targets and return the power to decide how much development we need to local residents. Under a future Conservative Government, it would be up to our local communities to make these decisions – not Labour’s faceless bureaucrats in Whitehall.
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