Local MP Backs Residents’ Campaign For Protection From Tram Extension - 04/04/2012 |
 Local MP Paul Goggins has joined residents of the Nurseries Estate in Sale Moor in calling for better protection from the extension of Metrolink.
The Nurseries Homewatch Association have asked for a raised embankment or low hill and extra landscaping to protect the housing estate from a section of the tram line which will run behind the estate.
Metrolink have so far rejected these proposals on the grounds of delay, cost and disruption and have suggested a fence and additional planting instead.
The group say this is not enough and intend to continue to press for a much improved scheme, in line with their original suggestions.
Paul Goggins MP said: “The extension of Metrolink will be bring benefits to local people across Sale Moor and Wythenshawe, but it is vital that the impact on the local community of building works and, ultimately, the trams themselves are minimised.
“The Nurseries Estate Homewatch Association have made it clear they are not happy with Metrolink’s proposals and I support their fight for an improved scheme. The argument that the construction of a low hill should not proceed because at some unspecified point in the future new houses may be built in the current gap is simply not good enough.”
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