Dear Editor,
As a lifelong Wistaston resident, I am writing with utter disgust and deep concern at the news that Redrow Homes are preparing to build around 190 houses on 12.6 acres of our open fields and grassland off Crewe Road.
We all know how this works: a local football team gets a shiny new kit, a school is gifted another pointless time capsule, and in exchange our village is once again carved up and sacrificed on the altar of profit.
Is this really the future of Wistaston?
This development is not needed and certainly not wanted. We have no new doctors, dentists or schools.
The local roads are already dangerous and congested with multiple junctions, bus stops, the children’s nursery, the Co-op entrance and exits – and now they want to funnel all traffic from 190 homes through a single entry/exit point?
Absolute nonsense. We’ve already had fatalities on this stretch of road. How many more lives must be lost before common sense prevails?
And what about water and sewage? We barely avoided a hosepipe ban this summer. Where is the water going to come from for nearly 200 new homes, each with multiple toilets and bathrooms?
The sewage works must be close to bursting already. No answers, just glossy words about “sustainability” and “green space.”
Let’s be honest – their so-called “consultation” is a box-ticking exercise, designed to give a false air of legitimacy to what is already a done deal.
They talk about “affordable housing,” but what does that even mean in reality? Certainly not affordable for many in our community.
And where are the guarantees on Section 106 contributions, which Cheshire East Council already has a poor track record of delivering?
This is not about meeting local needs – it’s about Redrow cashing in on greenfield land. We have plenty of brownfield sites crying out for development.
But instead, they target Wistaston’s open spaces, edging ever closer to merging Crewe and Nantwich into one sprawling mass – or as many of us now call it, “Crewitch.”
Wistaston is being slowly destroyed. Once these fields are gone, they are gone forever.
I urge every resident to see this for what it is: a land grab dressed up in PR fluff. We must say NO.
Loudly, firmly, and together. Because once again, our community is being treated with contempt – and our village deserves far better.
Regards
Jonathan White
Wistaston
Unfortunately, Labour’s policy is to build 1.5 million homes, so Labour run council’s are NOT going to oppose planning applications and are to easily approved without proper consultation, needs of local area and putting sustainable infrastructures in place. More and more bland and faceless estates will be built.
It’s affordable homes for Southerners! Why do you think most estates are now filled with houses over half a million? Not for locals but people moving up from the south.
Walk round Nantwich, it’s like the Old Kent Road, we have lost our community and our town!
Jonathan. It is new development waiting to happen as it had a ransom parcel. For many people affordable is unaffordable.