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Save <strong>Bamford</strong> Green<br />
Belt Action Group<br />
Hundreds of People Turned out for Green Belt Rally<br />
Action Committee members of 'Save <strong>Bamford</strong> Green Belt' joined<br />
with 1,500 fellow protesters from across Greater Manchester, in<br />
Albert Square on Saturday 1st April, to oppose the Greater<br />
Manchester Spatial Framework which plans to build on Green<br />
Belt across Greater Manchester.<br />
The controversial plans revealed last year proposes to build<br />
225,000 new homes over the next 20 years, with<br />
approximately 750 planned to be built on <strong>Bamford</strong>'s beautiful<br />
Green Belt land, plus the 11 football pitches that are used by<br />
700 children per week at Bridge Football Club. Anne Shorrock<br />
(Founding Member of the <strong>Bamford</strong> Green Belt Action Group)<br />
said: "We are not against houses being built but they must be<br />
affordable houses and in the right places, not on Green Belt<br />
land. Once this land is gone it is gone forever, and we have to<br />
think of the generations that will follow".<br />
A number of speakers addressed the passionate crowds at the<br />
Rally including the Chair of Save Greater Manchester Green Belt,<br />
Steven Longden, who did a fantastic job of rallying the<br />
supporters and spoke with great conviction, James Mason from<br />
Bury Green Belt Group who delivered a passionate speech, a<br />
member of Community Voice on Planning, a member of Save<br />
Chadderton Green Belt, and Jacquie Copley from the Campaign<br />
to Protect Rural England.<br />
Steve Lord member of campaign group Save Greater<br />
Manchester’s Greenbelt (SGMGB) steering committee quoted<br />
“We got 1,500 people into the middle of Manchester on a rainy<br />
day”.<br />
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