Cutacre Opposition Builds!

HUNDREDS of furious residents are expected to attend a special meeting that has been organised by Hulton Ward Councillors for residents of Over Hulton to hear Council Officers proposals for the future of Cutacre.  The plans are to redesignate green belt land for use as a giant industrial park.

Residents are angry because the original open cast mine consent conditioned that the open-cast mine would eventually be turned into a country park when short-term coal extraction ceased.

Residents have now submitted a petition with more than 800 signatures to the council demanding that the the planning consent be implemented as previously approved and that the country park, that was conditioned in the planning consent be fully implemented in line with the restoration plans.

Hulton Ward Councillors, who are supporting the residents’ campaign said: “The fact that 800 people have signed a petition obviously demonstrates the strength of feeling of the residents of Over Hulton, and that is just the beginning really.  If the council thinks that we are just going to roll over and not be listened to, then it is going to have a rude awakening, because we are going to fight it to the death.”

The meeting is to be held in the Festival Hall, Bolton Town Hall on the 9th September 2009 at 700pm.

Basis of this article appeared in the Bolton News 02/09/09, please click on the following link: