Members of Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt Group (including Friends of Carrington Moss) are supporting campaigners who are concerned about the plans to construct a new loop road on the M60 motorway.

But ………….. we are not experts in the examination of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

Luckily, our friends at the Transport Action Network (TAN) certainly are and they will be joining us at our online meeting to discuss the examination (see below).  TAN is currently campaigning to get all the unaffordable road schemes, up and down the country, scrapped, including this one.  You can help with this by writing to Transport Secretary Louise Haigh, using the TAN template (click here) to help construct your letter.  The Funding Statement (paragraph 2.1.1) confirms that the cost of the Simister Island Scheme is estimated to be around £230 million, a scandalous waste of public money!

Our online meeting to discuss the Simister Island Scheme examination will be held on 17^th September at 5:30pm – all are welcome – the link to the meeting is here.

If you are one of the many individuals or groups who registered as an Interested Party for the Simister Island Scheme Examination in Public, you may still be catching up with the huge list of issues that were raised in the initial Relevant Representations (you can see them all starting on page 9 of the Examination Library).  Many of them are picked up in the Initial Assessment of Principal Issues (Annex C, page 18) of the Rule 6 Letter.

If you feel that something important you raised is not covered there, you should mention this in a Written Representation, see below for the deadline.

It appears that the recently adopted Places for Everyone Plan has not been taken into consideration, particularly in terms of the cumulative impacts of air, noise, light, vibration and water pollution, and, of course, carbon emissions but also in relation to land allocated for development.  All of which needs further scrutiny.

The next deadline (Tuesday 24^th September 2024) is for Interested Parties (that is all of those who have registered to take part in the examination) to submit Written Representations (WR), with summaries for any that exceed 1500 words.  We can also make a request to be heard at a future Open Floor Hearing (OFH).  Take the time to consider whether you would like to make further comments to the Planning Inspectors, would you like to submit some detailed evidence to substantiate your original representation?

There will be an opportunity for those who are affected by the proposed Compulsory Acquisitions to be heard at a specific future Hearing but those affected individuals need to make a request to be heard by 24^th September. 

It is possible that the Planning Inspectors will request further information in advance of the 24^th September deadline, so keep an eye on the Project Updates as they are circulated.

Please forward this link to anyone who may be interested either in the update or in joining the meeting.