WELL! Well! So Mr Justin Stannard, developer is horrified, is horrified to discover that Birtenshaw farmland, (latterly known as Holland garden centre) has been put on the waiting list for potential housing development by the new Greater Manchester spacial framework as Plan 'B' at the request of the land's receiver, Mr David Currie,

I, too, am horrified, but also at Mr Stannard's backing of Plan 'A' which calls for a sports village on the thrice protected farmland, including a legally-binding and enforceable covenant forbidding such development in perpetuity. Sports pitches do not come in isolation, but with inevitable baggage such as changing rooms, toilets and car parks, noisy Tannoy systems and the threat of floodlighting.

No Mr Stannard, Bromley Cross is not the beautiful village it once was, having suffered from planning blight by way of unwanted development, including at least one ugly building, and which in turn has driven away a variety of wildlife.

Plan 'A' would be the ultimate assault on Birtenshaw farmland and a betrayal of the local benefactors, the Ashworth Brothers.

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