Delight as developer’s industrial estate plans are thrown out following appeal
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA developer has lost its appeal over controversial plans to extend an industrial estate into the green belt. Quorum challenged Stockport council’s decision to refuse its proposal to expand Bredbury Industrial Estate into the Tame Valley, resulting in a two-week public inquiry.
Held last month, it heard from experts on behalf of both the council and the applicant, as well as Denton and Reddish MP Andrew Gwynne.
Quorum argued there was an ‘overwhelming need’ for large scale industrial and warehouse units in the borough and the proposed site - on the Stockport and Tameside border - was the only suitable location. READ MORE : ‘This would be a disaster for my community’: MP blasts developer’s ‘cynical’ appeal over rejected industrial estate plans But planning inspector David Rose came down on the side of the council and objectors, finding that there were no ‘very special circumstances’ to justify building in the valley.
In a report published on Tuesday, he said the scheme would ‘conflict’ with the purposes of the green belt. “First, the project would conflict with the purpose of checking the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas, in that it would break the bounds of the existing well-defined industrial area and spread across open fields as far as topography would reasonably permit,” Mr Rose writes. “Second, the proposal would bring Bredbury and Haughton Green significantly closer together.
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