I agree completely with Chipper about building up and gardens. But we have a couple of problems. The building up principle to save land was how the wasteful open, surface level car parks in Crewe were used for real buildings and replaced by a multi storey that uses much less land. And look how much abuse that has received. And not everyone wants a garden (in fact not everyone has a garden) is how the seperate charge for garden waste bins can be justified - and that's a whole new level of abuse!

Cornes clearly has no idea of how the Planning LAWS work. Some time ago there was an application to build a lot of new homes between the main road at Winterley and the bypass and locals objected. "People's views" were considered (not ignored) and then ruled out because most of them will not have been about things the LAW considers. Then those houses were built and new people moved in. Now the new people will be using the same excuses to object to more new houses next to them, without considering the irony that if those objections were valid they wouldn't actually be living there themselves! Some people can afford property prices, especially when developers advertise homes as being within commuting distance of Manchester and the Potteries - and anything east of Crewe Green roundabout is very convenient for the M6. The houses at Cross Keys were actually advertised on the developers website as convenient for commuting to Chester and Telford!!! The LAW needs changing so that a LOCAL demand for the new homes is required, but MPs from places which are already bursting won't vote for that. And something else to keep you awake at night. Homes targeting the newly retired are a ticking financial bomb for local council tax payers. These people move here all happy and healthy but many decline and eventually need social care, and eventually many run out of cash so the local council ends up paying - despite them only paying council tax here for a few years. CEC can't go the council where they paid for years and ask for the money - that's another LAW that needs changing, but again MPs for areas which the older residents are leaving won't vote for it.

Enough is Enough,
People can't afford today's property prices let alone building more houses.
You might ask yourself why are there foxes and badgers in my garden,
Well the answer is your building on there habitat.
I'm disappointed to hear that peoples views were not taken into consideration, don't forget that people's views come to light when elections take place.
I support the right not to build without a full and honest reason why they should.

Why not build up not out,not everyone wants a garden,modern architecture of today blends in.

that "open countryside" appears to be surrounded by house on 3 sides....