Macclesfield: 'SAVE DANES MOSS' to question Cheshire East Council today
By Nub News guest writer
13th Dec 2023 | Opinion
The SAVE DANES MOSS group will ask a question at the full council meeting of Cheshire East Council today - Wednesday 13 December.
It is to prevent urbanisation on a south Macclesfield site which is on the fringes of the Danes Moss Nature Reserve.
The question is directed at the Council leadership and the Environmental and Communities Committee.
The question is: "In full knowledge of the vast scale and urgency of our task to survive climate change and biodiversity collapse, will the council commit to urgently introduce local planning policies in alignment with the National Planning Policy Framework to ban future developments on peatlands?"
Cheshire East Council meet today at Jodrell Bank, Lower Withington, 11am, click the red link to find out more.
Tytherington resident Thomas Eccles, Chair of Save Danes Moss, said: "Cheshire East Council have made minimal progress on climate action despite regular self-congratulation about being on track to become a 'net-zero' council. This council continues to allow peatlands to be destroyed for development. And worse, they have not removed peatlands from areas they allocated for development under The Local Plan (2017).
"Peatlands are the biggest store of carbon on land and in this borough. Peatlands are precious. They are gift from nature that have protected us from even worse climate change and they are home to beautiful wildlife. It is insanity that the council continues to allow the destruction of peatlands in Cheshire East. Our question today is an attempt to change that. We hope they are listening."
SAVE DANES MOSS are continuing to raise funds to mount a legal challenge against the proposals.
A statement on the SAVE DANES MOSS website reads: "Danes Moss is a historic peat bog and rare wildlife habitat which holds massive amounts of carbon in its soil. This place once extended across a thousand acres to the south of the Cheshire town of Macclesfield. After centuries of destruction by humans less than 500 acres remains of this former wilderness.
"Now, Cheshire East Council and others are planning a massive housing and retail development on 200 acres of the Moss.
"One project is called the 'South Macclesfield Development Area' – 950 homes, a supermarket, retail sheds and a link road that would devastate this sacred place, the last refuge of an ancient landscape.
"There are also other attempts to build on the Danes Moss peatland. On 26 July 2023, Jones Homes and Redrow were refused planning permission (21/4113M) for their attempt to put 92 homes on peatland connected to Danes Moss.
"Sadly, this land is still allocated for housing by the Council and we believe the developers will be back trying to profit from this peatland."
Cheshire East Council have historically not provided comments to Macclesfield Nub News regarding Danes Moss, stating "They do not comment on live planning applications."
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