Do you know about the Land Adjacent to 46B Chelford Road?

It could have been an asset for our community. Allotments, a community garden, or even a children’s play area. Instead, it’s been laid to waste for years - a woefully unmaintained and overgrown dumping ground.

Why? Because an ethically challenged individual, called Wendy, decided to put a fence around it and falsely claim it as her own. The twist? It’s never belonged to her. She’s never held the deed nor the title; it’s an act of pure subterfuge.

Now she’s trying to sell the land to out-of-town property developers, who’ll make £1,000,000 by building on this shameless act of squatting.

The land has become a thriving haven for wildlife and plantlife. Their proposed development will eradciate the habitat of bats, birds and badgers, and lay waste to pollution reducing trees and shrubs.

Weasely Wendy’s a Shady Squatter.

She’s squatted the land, and now she’s attempting to use a draconian right called adverse possession to claim ownership. She’s even agreed a deal with an opportunistic out-of-town developer, some blaggers from Blackpool.

Between them, they’re attempting to push through a planning application for a large scale development. Their own website refers to the land as “a challenging, narrow plot”. That’s because the plot isn’t suitable for two massive detached houses.

Broken Cross Developments Limited, with a registered office in London and shareholders in Blackpool, plan to make £1 million from this shameless land grab.

• Do you want to lose one of the few remaining green pockets in Broken Cross? The natural habitats and open spaces of Broken Cross have already been decimated by property development.
• Do you want unscrupulous squatters and opportunistic out-of-town developers lining their coffers with land that should belong to the community?
• Do you want even more strain on our oversubscribed local schools and infrastructure?
• Do you want our already illegal levels of PM pollution to increase even more?
• Do you want even more collisions at the problematic Broken Cross crossroads?
• Do you think Cheshire East should enable squatters to profit?

No? Then help us stop Wendy.

How to object effectively

Or you can write your own objection, on the basis of:

• The layout and density of the buildings: they’re clearly too big for the plot, sitting unreasonably close to the neighbouring properties boundaries.
• Loss of daylight or sunlight and Overshadowing/loss of outlook: the buildings will block vital sunlight to neighbouring residents, significantly degrade their outlook and cast shadow over their land.
• Noise and disturbance from use, light pollution: the new houses can accommodate upwards of 16 new residents; that’s a lot of additional lighting and vehicular noise - on plots that have never been artificially lit.
• Highway safety issues and traffic generation: upwards of 4 new cars accessing the already problematic Chelford Road, close to the dangerously sharp Whirley Road junction.
• Nature conservation and Intrusion into the Open Countryside: there are no dwellings between 46b and 52 Chelford Road. Developing this plot will diminish wild life (bats, birds and even badgers have been observed). Destruction of planting and vegetation will lead to increased levels of pollution.
• Loss of important trees: there are very mature trees on the adjacent plots that will inevitably incur root damage. There are trees on the plot that are subject to TPOs.
• Risk of flooding: the land spends most of its time submerged in surface water. If the developers fill it with concrete, where is that water supposed to go? The neighbouring home owners will suffer increased flooding.
• A moral objection: the council must not be seen to be developers to reap huge profits from land obtained through squatting.