Save Swallow's Wood

12/12/2024

Help grow the network by getting involved in this fantastic event!

28/11/2024

From the Planning Inspectorate today...

For more info about this project and why it should be stopped, start here:
https://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/ltc-facts/

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PLANNING ACT 2008 AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (EXAMINATION PROCEDURE) RULES 2010
APPLICATION BY NATIONAL HIGHWAYS (“THE APPLICANT”) FOR AN ORDER GRANTING DEVELOPMENT CONSENT FOR THE PROPOSED LOWER THAMES CROSSING PROJECT
CONSULTATION SEEKING COMMENTS FROM ALL INTERESTED PARTIES
Interested Party Reference number: 20035820
(You must quote your Interested Party Reference number in all correspondence with the Planning Inspectorate).

Dear Sir/Madam

Please find below a link to a letter from the Secretary of State for Transport that has been published on the National Infrastructure Planning website for the above project.

https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/document/TR010032-006501

This letter invites comments from various parties in relation to a number of matters raised in the letter. The deadline for receipt of comments is 12 December 2024.

If you are not able to access this information electronically or have any other queries, please contact us on 0303 444 5000 and a member of the Planning Inspectorate’s case team will be able to provide you with the relevant details.

Kind regards,

Lower Thames Crossing Project Case Team
National Infrastructure Planning
Helpline: 0303 444 5000
Email: [email protected]

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Lower Thames Crossing Facts Cost - £9 billion (at least) The LTC would cost £9 billion according to the latest estimate submitted by National Highways to the DCO examination [1], making the scheme more expensive per mile than the cancelled HS2 project. However this figure is likely to be hugely un...

21/11/2024

Pollution is a huge problem in our valley, which is why last week kids from Dinting School were on the street making motorists aware of the hazards they can cause. Police, members of GAST: Glossopdale Action for Sustainable Travel, staff and pupils from Dinting Primary School undertook speed checks, tested cars parked on the pavement had left enough room for buggies and wheelchairs to pass, and issued notices they had made themselves to cars idling while they waited to collect their kids. The kids were thoroughly engaged and focused on the task in hand – well done to you all. Drivers responded with waves and t***s. Hopefully for the future they will remember the kids’ messages and act on them.

15/11/2024

Have you seen the plans for the link road? Take a proper look here:
https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR010034/TR010034-000132-2.6%20Scheme%20Layouts.pdf

15/11/2024

Work at the roundabout is connected to the bypass construction. Sad times.

We're investigating ways to improve connectivity between Manchester and Sheffield.

08/11/2024

Did you know we made some walking route maps so you can explore this beautiful area? You can download them here:

Walk 1: Swallow's Wood and Cow Lane (via Devil's Bridge)
https://saveswallowswood.org.uk/resources/route1.pdf
Walk 2: Mottram Old Hall and Cow Lane
https://saveswallowswood.org.uk/resources/route2.pdf

08/11/2024

Thinking today of Pat Ellison, who spent many years of her life fighting against the Mottram-Tintwistle bypass and would be greatly saddened so know that the Glossop Spur has been approved. Here's one of the interviews she did for the Manchester Evening News when we were fighting the scheme back in 2010.

PAT Ellison fondly remembers the days when she used to paddle barefoot in the streams that trickle through the Longdendale valley. Splashing around in streams was just one of the many adventures Pat enjoyed during her childhood growing up in Hollingworth.

06/11/2024

It's just over 14 years ago that we issued this press release in response to the announcement that the Government was pulling funding for the Mottram-Tintwistle bypass.
https://saveswallowswood.org.uk/news/2010-11-01.shtml

In it we called for the local council to put their efforts into alternative solutions. Instead they remodelled the scheme, taking out the more controversial parts (the National Park) to bring you a road scheme by stealth. No application was ever made to the Government’s Sustainable Transport Fund. No serious consideration, on the scale given to the road scheme, has ever been put into alternatives.