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Amount of green space in the Borough already destroyed or under threat

Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) made this Freedom of Information request to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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From: Sheila Oliver (Account suspended)

12 January 2010

Dear Stockport Borough Council,

I have previously had the FOIA/EIR response below from Stockport
Council.

"The amount of Green Belt land within the Borough of Stockport
permanently required for the funded section of the SEMMMS Relief
Road from A6 Hazel Grove to M56 Manchester Airport, is 539,869
square metres. The amount of Green Belt land within the Borough
permanently required for the non-funded section of the Relief Road
is 739,238 square metres."

Using the same calculations/definitions, how much green space has
already been lost in the Borough from planning applications such as
Aquinas, Harcourt Street and development on redundant school land
etc in the past 5 years and how much is planned to be lost, for
example, from development such as the proposed car park in Woodbank
Park?

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver

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From: FOI Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

13 January 2010

Dear Mrs Oliver,

Thank you for your request for information below which has been given
reference FOI/EIR 2536. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding
your request.

Stockport Council will respond to your request within 20 working days. If
there will be a charge for disbursements e.g. photocopying in order to
provide the information, we will inform you as soon as possible to see if
you wish to proceed; however such charges are usually waived if they
amount to less than £10.

Yours sincerely,

Claire Naven

Claire Naven

Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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From: FOI Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

3 February 2010

Dear Mrs Oliver,

I am writing in response to your request for information below (ref 2536).

The majority of your request is a repeated request; under section 14(2) of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) the Council is not obliged
to respond to requests which have previously been complied with. Please
see the response to ref 2332 for the information you require.

As you are aware, your requests for information on the topic of Harcourt
Street are considered to be vexatious under s.14 FOI Act and will not
receive a response.

In relation to your question about Woodbank Park, the proposal will
require 1320 square metres. The Green Belt designation will remain
unchanged.

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you are
entitled to ask for an internal review. Any internal review will be
carried out by a senior member of staff who was not involved with your
original request. To ask for an internal review, contact
[1][email address] in the first instance.

If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are
entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

[2]www.ico.gov.uk

01625 545 745

Yours sincerely,

Claire Naven

Claire Naven

Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation ( 8 February 2010)

I am very concerned to read here that building on Green Belt land still leaves the land designated as Green Belt land. It means that a Council, as planning authority, can give itself permission to take whatever it wants out of the Green Belt because it stays in it. The Council, as planning authority, need not account for incremental losses until the Green Belt disappears altogether and no one officer or elected representative can ever be held accountable. Nice one !!

This bodes very ill indeed for Woodbank Memorial Park, Stockport Green Belt land and site of a third car park. [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4111...

The original gift of this land to Stockport people for recreational purposes was 89 ha. It is now 57.3 ha following incremental land-take for Council nursery, Council vehicle depot, Council athletics stadium and Council Rest Home. The sale of Woodbank Hall will follow soon. And this is how Stockport Council does it: it calls it minimal land-take (the car park is 0.14ha), and requires of itself not a jot of evidence of need or necessity. That would be difficult with it being the third car park in the area. Using the nod and wink consultation method it smoothly endorses plans that contravene Green Belt policy, confidently jumping through the planning committee hoops barely opposed. Opposing residents are readily vilified, hence muzzled. This must be going on up and down the country for sure. Welcome to the UK Banana Republic, perhaps?

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation ( 8 February 2010)

I think the Gremlins put those very wise comments under my name. They are not from me but I concur completeley with what that person said. The Council is taking the last vestiges of much needed open space in a very built up town for development which is unnecessary or could go elsewhere. I think the bottom line here is whether destroying green space makes our supposedly green, LibDem run council a fast buck or not. If it does, then all the relevant Unitary Development policies are ignored and the developments are passed by nodding dog councillors on the relevant committees.

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

This vital, safe, green space in a very built up area is set to be destroyed by Stockport's supposedly green LibDem council:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4436...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

And this is set to be built on for housing by Stockport Council:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4478...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

And they are trying to build a £1 billion bypass along this green stretch:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4186...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

And the bypass will destroy this lovely land:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4138...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

And the bypass, which isn't needed but the Council thinks it is a vote winner, will destroy this beautiful arable land right in the heart of this industrial town:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4106...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

And this land would be lost to the bypass:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4062...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

And this would be lost under the bypass:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.4028...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

Yet more green chains lost under the bypass:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.3963...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

More green space to be lost to the bypass:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.3930...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

Even more green space set to be destroyed under the bypass by our so-called environmentally friendly LibDem council:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.3887...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

Yet more land set to be destroyed for ever by our LibDem council:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.3867...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

Even more vital green lungs to be bypassed over in concrete:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.3856...

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (11 February 2010)

Even more land to be lost to the bypass:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.3859...

and more to follow.

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Mike left an annotation (16 February 2010)

This bypass land has been earmarked for 40+ years just for this purpose and has little to do with the current council.

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Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation (16 February 2010)

Hi Mike

I think the land has been earmarked for a bypass since 1928. The scheme was shelved, but in 2001 it was given new life by this Council and the Council is in the same political hands now as it was then.

My question is merely about the amount of green space in the Borough which is set to be destroyed, which is a very, very large amount.

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