Angry residents turn out in force to try and block plan for 450 homes on farmland

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Residents have turned out in force to register their opposition to controversial plans to build 450 homes on one of the last remaining parcels of farmland in Salford. This was after property giant Peel put its £54m plan for the new estate at Hazelhurst Farm, next to the East Lancashire Road at Worsley, on display.

Scores of locals visited Brackley Conservative Club, right next to the green belt site, last week and were unequivocal in their opposition to the scheme. The 42-acre plot is sandwiched between the busy A580 and the slip road to the M61, and objectors say the "already congested roads" in the area would be even more overburdened.

They also say there would be even more pressure on services like doctors' surgeries and schools, which they say are already bursting at the seams. Peel and its building subsidiary Northstone's scheme has been submitted as part of Greater Manchester's Places for Everyone (PfE) plan, currently being considered by the Secretary of State for Housing, Levelling Up and Communities.

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The plan for the Green Belt land has yet to receive approval with examinations into its proposals likely to take place in the autumn. Nearby residents began arriving at the Conservative club Thursday (June 9) for the five-hour consultation, hosted by Peel.

The first to get there, a woman who did not wish to be named, said of the scheme: "It makes me sick. I've been walking my dogs on that farmland for 30 years. You can see little bits of development creeping in around the edges, and it incenses me. The noise from the traffic around here is horrendous. It's so bad, you can't even get off your drive, half the time."

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