Partington residents nervous over proposed Redrow housing development

The Redrow application will be read out at a Trafford Planning Meeting today (22 January), which will be shown live on the Trafford Council YouTube channel.

Objections have come in from several people from both Partington and Warburton, including Urmston. Both Partington and Warburton Parish Councils have also objected to this application that sees 155 houses being built on land west of Warburton Lane, Warburton.

The traffic issues have been mentioned that this housing development will create. Partington Parish Council has mentioned the amount of road fatalities around the part of Warburton Lane where this housing development is proposed to be built.

There is concern about the green belt, pollution issues, and other very important issues like how the GP Surgery will cope, as we know they are already under pressure. Schools in the area are struggling for places, shopping is not good enough, parking issues, and crime.

If this housing development does get approved, which Trafford Council has mentioned in a document that they are minded to grant, it will make it harder to refuse the second part of this gigantic housing development, which will see well over 500 more houses being built on the east side of Warburton Lane. This part of the application should be decided at a Planning meeting sometime this year.

This ‘west side’ of Warburton Lane is also a place where historians have great interest and a place where there is a monk’s grave under a mound. We asked HS2 to go around the mound when the plans for the route were still going ahead. They did some searching, and soon after, the route had changed.

A deer park was once on the site where Redrow wants to build the houses, with a ‘Park Pale’ still visible. It is considered a significant local heritage asset, with other historical items and infrastructure that could be waiting to be found. Then a developer comes and puts a huge housing development on it, which will mean the remains could be damaged and won’t see the light of day, which is not acceptable.

Despite your objections and ours, it looks like the councillors of the Planning Committee will approve this application tonight, which will add to the real concerns of Partington residents, as it is them that all of these huge housing developments will affect the most, creating a bottleneck with only one road in and out.

The Carrington Relief Road is wanted more by the council than the people! It will only bring in more people, as it is only a two-lane road and goes over yet more green belt that has even more significance at Carrington Moss. This is a disaster in all forms where only Partington residents and significant local heritage assets will be badly affected in the years ahead.

In other news for both Partington and Warburton residents, United Utilities could build a huge water pipe from Lymm, where a water extraction pump station will be built to drain many billions of gallons from the River Bollin and other infrastructure. The scoping report has been accepted, and we await the full application. If approved, this will cause major disruption for months in Lymm, Warburton, Dunham, and Broadheath.