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GMSF Consultation [Jan-March 2019]- Find your comments

Following the second GMSF Consultation all the responses have been published.
If you submitted comments to the consultation you should have received an email or letter from the GMCA thanking you.
In this they will have given you a link containing a unique number through which you can search their spreadsheet for your comments.

The link below will take you to the ‘GMSF Responses’ web page and give you instructions on how to search for your comments, and those of the 17,000+ people who also wanted to make sure their voice was being heard.

Here’s the link to the GMSF Responses web page:

Responses to GMSF Consultation [Jan-Mar 2019]

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Developer REDROW show their plans for GM2-Stakehill*

Redrow Homes has produced a glossy PR document as part of their comments to the recent GMSF Consultation (Jan-Mar 2019).
The indicative masterplan for what they call the ‘Manchester Road Development’ uses information from the GMSF documentation to show how they might develop the site.
Showing the All In One Garden Centre as its way in from the main road, they demonstrate how they could use the whole area behind Thornham Cricket Club and St John’s Thornham Church, stretching to Thornham New Road, the M62, and A627M.

At this stage of the GMSF plan, Redrow have decided its time to show their hand and how serious they are in wanting to got hold of this large chunk of local Greenbelt.

Whoever wrote this Development Statement
obviously used online and out of date information
and probably didn’t set foot in Slattocks

There are lots of error and mistakes. We’ll leave you to spot them.

MAP_Redrow-Plan-GM2-StakehillDownload
Redrow-Plan-GM2-StakehillDownload
  • The whole of the Redrow document, showing other sites across Greater Manchester they wish to develop can be found on the GMCA website
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GMSF – Consultation (Jan-March ’19)

Summary – (Published October 2019)

Of particular interest is the section on GM2: Stakehill (pages 81 – 84) and ‘New Sites Submitted’ (page 282 – Rochdale)

Click the link below

GMSF Consultation Summary

Detail of Responses/Comments

Take a look at the spreadsheet below to check that your comments were included in the consultation.

GMSF Consultation (Jan-Mar 2019) Comments receivedDownload

Alternatively, click the link below:

GMSF-responses

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Delay announced next GMSF Consultation

The Greater Manchester Combined Authorities (GMCA) which is made of the 10 Greater Manchester Councils, including Rochdale, have now analysed and published the results of the GMSF Consultation (held Jan-March 2019).

Many residents from Slattocks and Stakehill sent in comments on the 2nd draft of the proposals.

Out of some 51 separate allocations/sites, our local allocation, GM Allocation 2: Stakehill, had the ninth highest number of comments, some 982.

This shows the strength of feeling amongst the local community in wanting a ‘have a say’ in the future of the area.

The GMCA publicity statement can be seen at the link below.

GMCA Statement

Results of the Consultation (Jan-March 2019)

“The proposed site allocation policies generated a significant number of responses with most focusing on loss of Green Belt”

The above quote is directly from the Report and reinforces just how much people across Greater Manchester feel about the plans.

Clicking the link below will take you to the GMSF report for September 2019.
Then go to Page 73

GMSF Report

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Local Residents Defend The Greenbelt

Shocked resident heard of the extent of proposed Greenbelt loss in the revised GMSF on Saturday 2nd February 2019 at a meeting in Thornham Cricket Club.

Many were shocked to hear that the revised GMSF plan is still looking at taking a large area of local Greenbelt.

The local allocation [GM 2 Stakehill] if it goes ahead, will see the building of 900 new houses and an extra 250,000sq metres of industrial units swallowing up the fields around Chesham Estate, Slattocks and Stakehill. The area stretches across to Chadderton leaving a ‘corridor’ of Greenbelt between Thornham Lane and the A627M  link road.

Comment of the revised GMSF  – GMSF Consultation

View maps of the area   GMSF allocations map 2019

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Revised GMSF Consultation

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which comprises the 10 local Councils, will shortly publish the much awaited consultation to the revised GMSF.

Every local resident will be able to comment on the plan between 21st January until 18th March, a period of eight weeks.

Comments can be made online [details to follow] or in writing. 

Before you send in your comments

Please come along to our local community meeting:

Read what MPs representing Greater Manchester constituencies have to so about the revised plan:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/heres-what-your-mp-say-15652473

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Help Stop Fly Tipping

Anyone using the local lanes, footpaths and bridleways will have seen piles of fly tipping from time to time [see photos below]. Nobody likes it.

Usually it happens under cover of darkness so the perpetrators aren’t seen. We suspect most of this is done by:

 – unscrupulous builders who don’t want to pay at Council tips. 

–  drug growers needing to get rid of old plants.

For some reason, ordinary household waste is dumped – why?
Are people using a company vehicle to dump their household waste?

Local tips have long opening hours:
Rochdale waste disposal/recycling centres
Oldham waste disposal/recycling centres

 

Please take photos of fly tipping and a note of the location, then report it to the Council.

Depending on the location, click the Rochdale or Oldham link below:

Rochdale – Fly tipping

Oldham – Fly tipping

Further information :  Nation Fly Tipping Prevention Group