Trafford
| Officers | |
|---|---|
| Chairman: | Dr. Michael Rose |
| Secretary | Vacant |
| Treasurer: | A Harrison |
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Contact Name: | Dr. Michael Rose |
| Email: | info@cprecheshire.org.uk |
| Telephone Number: | 0161 973 2612 |
Meeting Frequency and Venue
Trafford District Committee meets at least every two months, at committee members' houses on a rotating basis. Extra meetings may be held for important items.
News and Events
One of the winners of last year's Cheshire CPRE Hedgerow Awards, Little Heath Farm, Dunham, has just been nominated for one of our 'Buy Local' Awards for the farm shop the owners have opened this year.
Mark and Sue Jones, who took over the farm about four years ago, are now offering best quality home produced meat, eggs and vegetables at the farm, where their Angus and Hereford cattle graze in fields. Read more in the latest edition of News and Events.
Please contact us for the latest news and events in the District.
How You Can Help
We welcome help all forms of help. If you could help, please contact the District Chairman.
Current Issues
Various
Recent issues, some of which will be ongoing for some time, are:
- Green Belt at Carrington and Davenport Green and Broadheath
- Hedgerow and Tree conservation at Timperley and elsewhere
- The Trafford Unitary Development Plan
- Proposed new roads and bridges
- conservation area at Barton
- Out of town shopping
- Protecting parking for the Metro.
Green fields saved from 'inert' waste
Trafford District has successfully supported local groups in preventing industrial development at Broadheath, the Tesco out-of-town development at Washway Road, Sale, and had input into Warrington District's action to stop Peel Holdings turning green fields at Rixton on the banks of the Ship Canal next to a conservation area into a dump for "inert waste".
Fighting for the Green Belt
Together with other groups at the Public Inquiry, Trafford District successfully limited the development of office blocks in the Green Belt at Davenport Green, though this is an on-going threat.
Trafford is one of those CPRE Districts that has to constantly battle to protect its Green Belt land, but there was cause for celebration earlier this year, when a long fight came to an apparently successful conclusion.
The proposed Trafford Interchange near Carrington was to take up 85 hectares of agricultural land in the Green Belt to create a massive freight interchange development. The North West Development Agency backed the plan, but objectors including CPRE were able to persuade Trafford Borough Council that there no 'exceptional circumstances” exist to justify permitting the development in this location, and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister informed Trafford that the proposal must be withdrawn.
The development has been under discussion for almost four years, and CPRE examined the proposal constructively, as road / rail interchanges can reduce the environmental impact of freight haulage, but this was simply in the wrong place. The Green Belt would have been fragmented, and countryside needlessly damaged when other more suitable sites are available for development.
Despite the Government's instruction, the proposal had not been officially withdrawn at the time of going to press, but it seems it may have been overtaken by other development anyway, as the Port Salford interchange comes forward as a much more appropriate location.
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