Government minister Michael Gove is now to decide whether a controversial plan to build a 'Tebay-style' motorway service station for the M56 on green belt land can go ahead. The plan is to build a service area, similar to the revered Tebay stopping point on the M6 in Cumbria, between junctions 7 and 8 on the M56 next to Tatton Park.
And today, Cheshire East council’s strategic planning board voted to give its consent to the proposals. It came in the face of opposition from Trafford council, whose border is only 100 metres from the site, and 150 objectors including residents and local groups. Planning law stipulates that because the development is on green belt land Mr Gove, who is secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, will get the final say on whether it is approved.
She said it would ‘build on the model’ of Tebay to ‘transform a derelict farming business into a vibrant service area’, creating 130 permanent local jobs and 325 temporary jobs while the build is taking place. She also spoke of a ‘Bridging the Gap’ programme, which had been undertaken at Gloucester services, where marginalised members of the society such as disabled people or those with a criminal conviction would be given employment.
Her colleague Coun Steve Edgar said he spoke as a representative of a rural area. “I have a particular interest in preserving green space,” he said. “But having had the privilege of being on-site on my own, the site being designated green belt seems incongruous when it’s surrounded by motorways and sliproads.
He said the assessment of council officers that the service station was needed to fill gaps in provision in the local motorway network was flawed. He described the M56 as a commuter motorway and said there was really only one significant gap between the eastern end of the M56 at Chester and the eastern end of the M67, pointing to a truck stop a Lymm and Knutsford as adequate.
"The gaps are just not gaps. It does not convince me that there are any special circumstances which mean we should approve this.”
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