DESPITE the recent report of the UK’s severe bungalow shortage, especially in Greater Manchester, one of the few available here is endangered.
For many elderly and disabled folk, a bungalow is the only option for staying in a home of their own.
Yet in Brook Avenue, Timperley, a landlord has applied for planning permission to demolish a bungalow to erect three tightly packed, high-rise structures.
These would occupy most of the current garden. The bungalow itself is attractive, structurally sound and in excellent condition – why demolish it?
The garden adjoins Timperley Brook, a major biological corridor, providing a semi-wild habitat for protected and endangered wildlife.
These include wood mice, Pipistrelle bats and hedgehogs (increasingly endangered); greater spotted woodpeckers, kingfishers and herons; frogs, toads and newts; and various rare species of butterfly and other invertebrates.
Dense, high-rise housing is best built on derelict industrial land — not on attractive residential gardens and major wildlife habitats.
The landlord has already felled three mature trees in the garden — including beautiful weeping willows.
Such actions surely speak for themselves.
To raise objections you can consult the Trafford Council planning committee website.
Simon Cooper
Brook Lane
Timperley
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