A former Manchester United football scout has been spared invasive surgery and given the all-clear after he was diagnosed with cancer last year.
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Councillors have approved plans to build more than 2,000 homes in the Hyde green belt despite thousands of objections from campaigners who asked whether the land was ‘precious’ or a ‘cash cow’.
Nine of the ten members of Tameside’s planning panel backed the Godley Green Garden Village application, which will now progress to the Secretary of State for final sign off. The proposal, which was first included in the draft Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) masterplan in 2016, will see up to 2,150 homes built on countryside and pastureland north of Mottram Old Road over a 15 year period.
The development will be split by Godley Brook across two east and west villages, each with their own ‘local centres’ which would include up to 1,300 sqm of retail, 1,600 sqm of commercial uses and 1,000 sqm of local community uses. After three rounds of consultation the number of objections against the garden village stood at 4,205, with an additional petition of 4,459 signatures lodged – compared to just 33 letters of support. Stockport council had also submitted a ‘late’ objection on highways grounds, councillors were told.
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During the more than two-hour long meeting on Wednesday (November 1), objectors put their case against the controversial development, in which 15 per cent of homes would be classed as ‘affordable’. Conservative Hyde Godley Councillor Andrea Colbourne told the panel: “These are the wrong houses in the wrong place. The development is not what I would class as a village, it’s
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