“Adlington Park is obviously a much better option than what we were facing before when Adlington was put forward for as a potential new town location,” Hawcutt said.<\/p>\n
“It is much, much smaller and on a totally different scale but it does still put forward a large-scale development of a size that would still dwarf the current Adlington village.”<\/p>\n
She said villagers should not just “automatically reject any new development” because “the area does need housing”. <\/p>\n
“My main concern is that a lot of the arguments do still stand,” she said. <\/p>\n
“It is green belt.<\/p>\n
” It is valuable farming land. <\/p>\n
“And as things stand, the infrastructure isn’t there to support even a development of this size.”<\/p>\n
Belport said on its consultation website that Adlington Park was still a “significant” housing scheme. <\/p>\n
“Positioned on the edge of Adlington, Adlington Park will create a carefully planned extension to the existing village,” it said.<\/p>\n
“We recognise that development on this scale is significant.<\/p>\n
“That’s why every aspect of Adlington Park has been approached with care.”<\/p>\n
A Belport spokesperson said: “Our proposals acknowledge the site’s green belt status, assessing the loss of agricultural land and setting out a clear, evidence-led case for the benefits of this scheme.”<\/p>\n
“The Adlington site is adjacent to an established railway station providing sustainable transport links,” they added. <\/p>\n
“The landscape-led proposals can provide 1,275 homes across a range of tenures and sizes alongside a new primary school and other community facilities.<\/p>\n
“Large areas of green and blue open space are integral to designs, creating new areas for recreation and will support a biodiversity net gain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Adlington Park is obviously a much better option than what we were facing before when Adlington was put…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}