RE: Clarence Road planning application & overdevelopment of Hale.

Who is to blame for this human greed?

Are the developers - who by whatever means locate and obtain land to develop without any concern for the environment or residents left in their wake, their sole objective being maximum profit.

Are the owners of the houses - who succumb to the temptation of personal gain from offers for their property whilst not realising or choosing or ignore the stress and devastion their decisions cause their neighbours.

Are the developers advisers - who make wild claims to support the aims of their bankrollers.

I refer here to the dismissive statement that "there is no wildlife".

A statement that was made before any survey was undertaken, after specimen trees and been felled and two ponds infilled prior to site inspection.

Clearly nearly 50 species of birds, 14 species of butterflies, countless frogs, newts, bats, hedgehogs and foxes do not exist.

Are our town planners - whose decisions seem to be based on the whim of the day and the fashion of that particular moment in time, the value of the extra council tax revenue for council coffers mitigating the legacy of a disappearing landscape for our ancestors.

Whoever is to blame you can be sure that they would not so willingly accept such developments on their own doorsteps and be happy to live with the resultant consequences.

Whoever is to blame is sure to have had the benefit of financial gain to quell any concerns of their conscience.

Let us hope and trust that our elected council, and in particular Trafford Planning Committee, listen carefully and sympathetically to the strength and value of our objections.

Let us hope that they appreciate the massive adverse effect that this development will have on the area in general and immediate residents in particular.

A number of the residents have lived in their homes for between 35 and 60 years and enjoyed the tranquility of their rear gardens, which now form the proposed site.

Let us hope that their garden sunsets of the future will not be obliterated by 40 foot high flats, trees and foliage replaced by brick and concrete, the sounds of nature replaced by the din of a concentrated population and their vehicles. Mr K Glancy, Hale.

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