Carrington Moss is Trafford’s largest peatland and is one of several across Greater Manchester.  Peatlands which store vast amounts of carbon – the worlds peatlands store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests. Carrington Moss is a unique biodiverse habitat, home to an abundance of flora and fauna. It is the breeding and feeding grounds for many endangered wildlife creatures and birds, some of which are red listed.

Carrington Moss is a wetland that absorbs huge amounts of water and it is very wet for long periods each year. This is great news because the water keeps the peat active, holding in, rather than emitting, the carbon stored here. It is also our natural flood defence.  Without it, both local residents and communities downstream on the River Mersey are at a higher risk of flooding.

Carrington Moss is in danger!

Trafford Council have plans to concrete it over!

The council want the construct the £76 million Carrington Relief Road, which they say is NOT for the benefit of local residents. They also say it will INDUCE more traffic into the area.  Our recent surveys demonstrate that this is money poorly spent.

There are NO committed plans for investment in public transport in the area, so any new development will be unsustainable and levels of air, light, noise, vibration and water pollution will increase significantly.

The council want to build 350,000 square metres of warehousing and industrial units, in Carrington, of which 100,000 square metres will be on (formerly Green Belt) land that has peat of around 2m in thickness under the surface!  Yet, there are sufficient brownfield sites for those developments across Greater Manchester.

The council want to build thousands of houses on the moss when there are sufficient brownfield sites in the borough and beyond!

There are several ways you can help our campaign to protect this precious habitat

• Email your councillors to express your objections
• The Carrington Relief Road Consultation will be in January 2025.  You can respond to this consultation, details of which should be available on the council website. 
• Alternatively, subscribe to our free newsletter and we will keep you updated.
• Join our 200 Club lottery for just £22 a year.  Not only do you have the chance to win one of three cash prizes each month for 12 months, but you will also be helping us with our campaign.  Last month’s prizes were £74 (1^st), £44 (2^nd) and £15 (3^rd).  The more members we have, the higher the prize money, so do encourage your friends and family to join too.