Back to list A57 Link Roads (previously known as Trans Pennine Upgrade Programme)

Representation by Stephen Bagshaw

Date submitted
15 September 2021
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses
  1. Adverse landscape and visual impacts. 2. Loss of Open Access Land. 3. Threat to PDNP. A Trojan Horse for a Motorway by stealth 4. Threat to wildlife, conservation and the natural environment. 5. Viable and realistic alternatives such as a Gyratory Flow system around Mottram, lorry bans etc too easily dismissed by a road centric organisation. 6. Loss of Mottram Showground. 7. Threatens to increase traffic not lessen it by making it a more attractive route, storing up further problems for the future. 8. Air quality, vibration, light and noise pollution set to worsen in many affected areas. 9. Increase in CO2 emissions. 10. Will disconnect communities still further by creating more roads. 11. Will lead to more housing between Spring Tavern and Mottram Moor, blurring distinction between communities and adding more traffic to the area. 12. Delivers no benefit for Hollingworth, Tintwistle or the High Peak. 13. Transforms Mottram from a semi-rural community to an urbanised mass of concrete. 14. Scheme is short sighted, lacking in imagination and offers little or no benefit to the area. A jobs-for-the-boys creation scheme from a non-neutral organisation.