{"id":1721,"date":"2017-11-19T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2017\/11\/19\/residents-battle-save-nutsford-vale-green-space-proposed-development\/"},"modified":"2017-11-19T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T16:24:15","slug":"residents-battle-save-nutsford-vale-green-space-proposed-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/residents-battle-save-nutsford-vale-green-space-proposed-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents in battle to save Nutsford Vale green space from proposed development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nutsford Vale country park is under threat of development as Manchester City Council is under growing pressure to build more houses and schools to accommodate a growing number of people moving to the city.<\/p>\n

This means brownfield areas such as Nutsford Vale in Gorton are being built upon, with little regard as to the health, safety and livelihood of both the local wildlife, such as foxes and water voles who will be moved from the area, and residents’ lives.<\/p>\n

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Manchester City Council, local charities and community groups, such as the Friends of Nutsford Vale, have spent the past six years investing not only three quarters of a million of taxpayers\u2019 pounds in the land but time, effort, and love and care into creating a wildflower meadow, footpaths and a community orchard, all of which was formerly a rubbish tip and toxic waste site, riddled with crime known locally as Jackson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Gorton councillors including Peter Cookson have put forward their concerns for the plans resulting in the loss of a ‘substantial part of the country park’.<\/p>\n