Save Flixton Green Belt News

With March being such a busy month we've had no time to give you regular news updates so here is a whole months worth. 3rd March 2018: This marked the 'Breathing Space Conference' organised by all the regional Green Belt Groups, which involved experts in their fields offering alternatives than the ones that the country is at present adopting which is putting our Green Belt and Green Spaces under threat. Mayor Andy Burnham was invited as was all our elected representatives here in Flixton. None of them took up the invites and in Flixton's case two councillors didn't even have the good manners to respond to their invitations. Viv Ward and Jonathan Coupe surprise surprise!! 17th March 2018: Since the councils welcome U Turn on the closure of G H Carnall Leisure Centre we have maintained active dialogue and are in the process of arranging meetings with local residents, the Council, local elected reps. and Manchester Giants to discuss community inp...

Hi Folks We finally have the minutes from our meeting with Sean Anstee, officers and planners available for your perousal. Your all going to have opinion on them but we would like to give you a brief summary of where we think we’re at. Although we have been fighting these proposals to build on our green belt since October 2016 the process has been rewound back to the start due to the GM Mayor Andy Burnhams insistence on a radical re-write of the GMSF (Greater Manchester Spatial Framework) to which these proposals fall under. As you will see in the minutes, Clare Taylor Russell Trafford Borough Councils head of strategic planning who is charged with dealing with Traffords allocation as part of the GMSF when asked specific questions about how figures were arrived at, responded with words like ‘average density assumptions’ and that the process is ‘iterative’. Effectively we are at the start of this process again (consultation stage) only now we have the advantage of being involved...

Friday 12/1/18 Happy new year everybody. Just a quick update on the meeting we had pre Christmas with Sean Anstee and planning. The minutes were approved from our end last night and are now in the possession of TBC for their approval. So hopefully we have them available for your scrutiny next week.

Hi folks just a quick heads up on Mondays meeting with Sean Anstee and Chief Strategic Planner and others. We are in the process of documenting the minutes. The meeting was fairly lengthy and to deliver it as true as we can may take some time as we also have to allow TBC to approve what we have as we set out in our pre meeting offer. Christmas is likely to delay this process so we anticipate early January for publishing. Please be patient. 🌳 🌳 🌳  SFGB  🌳 🌳 🌳

This week has not been the best week for our campaign. A political bias appears to have been sought by other campaigners in our community that although outwardly want the same outcome ie no building on our precious green belt have decided to openly criticise the support from which we might add was given from the start from our MP Kate Green and leader of the opposition labour group Andrew Western. As we have stated from the start of this thing, help contains no conditions. This community can only gain the required result by being united and we guarantee that our fight will not include any rhetoric that is not justified. On the record we have stated that this issue would've been dealt with the same vigour had Trafford been Labour controlled. Wednesday 30/11/2017 saw a motion by the labour group to remove our precious green from the GMSF. The ruling Conservatives refused a vote on the motion which was against the constitution of the council. Labour withdrew from the meeting on a p...

Having had a few of days to digest the offer to this community from our council regarding the proposal to build less houses on our green belt but never the less still build on it. We would like to reassure you all that we as a group will remain steadfast in our resolve to get this disastrous proposal overturned. ... We have been encouraged by the continued support from Andy Western and the Trafford Labour Group plus our local MP Kate Green who has been in telephone contact with us to personally offer her continued full support in our quest. The group is meeting with the council in early December to discuss this and other local issues and our team is at present formulating questions in light of this announcement. Your continued support is invaluable so thanks, please keep it up, keep the faith and spread the word that we won't give up. 🌳 🌳 🌳 Have a good week folks 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 SFGB 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 www.saveflixtongreenbelt.org # prote...

w/c 6/11/2017 ******* Could this be the moment ******* ******* that marks the beginning ******* ******* of the end to the proposal ******* ******* to build 750 homes on *******   ******* on our village green belt? ******* Sean Anstee has informed us that Trafford Council have procured the services of environmental consultants ERAP to assess and advise over the long term solutions for the site at Willy Wroe. We are meeting Sean Anstee in the coming weeks to discuss all things GMSF regarding our green belt as well as other on going issues locally. We will ask for answers regarding this appointment and what it's implications are. 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 Please watch this space. 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 www.saveflixtongreenbelt.org