Everything decided at Salford's latest planning meeting
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCouncillors have been accused of conducting a ‘Salford chainsaw massacre’ by a resident after they approved a series of developments in the city which will result in the felling of numerous trees.
Resident Seamus Martin made the comment to the city’s planning committee when he pleaded with them to exclude the site of the former Windsor High School from a plan to build 485 homes as part of the regeneration of Pendleton.
He said the area had become an unofficial park where people walk dogs, stroll and where children play hide and seek, and that area had become a ‘green lung’.
Mr Martin was backed by Coun Bob Clarke who objected to the loss of trees in Pendleton as well on two other applications, saying: “I feel like I’m in an environmental nightmare. “We’re sending all these trees to the chipper, and I’d say we were living in cloud cuckoo land, except there won’t be any trees for the cuckoos to inhabit.
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