Cheshire council leaders urged to resign after proposing new town without local support

Cheshire East council leaders are facing calls to resign after a letter they wrote supporting a new town in Adlington led to its inclusion on the government's list of proposed sites. The letter, sent to the New Towns Taskforce in June, expressed support for the new town proposal, which would include 20,000 homes. Residents and opposition councillors claim they were not consulted and are strongly against the development on green belt land. While the council leaders have since retracted their support, citing "fundamental flaws" in the plan, a Conservative motion of no confidence will be debated next week. The government has stated that decisions on new towns will be made in the "national interest," despite a petition with over 19,000 signatures opposing the Adlington project.

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