RESIDENTS in West Timperley have underlined their opposition to development plans at a packed public meeting.

The get together - attended by almost 200 people - was organised by West Timperley Action Group after two schemes were put forward for a major junction on Manchester Road.

They fear it is the first stage of a link road between Manchester Road and Sinderland Road - in readiness for a 645-house estate on farmland behind South Trafford College.

A spokesman for the action groups says the meeting overwhelmingly opposed the junction proposals. Concerns included an increase in traffic and pollution and that a housing development on the land would mean the area was overdeveloped and schools would not cope with the numbers.

He says: "I don't think the junction would be able to cope with the extra traffic. And the sheer size of the housing development would change the area. There are very strong feelings about this."

Members of the action group will meet their three ward councillors before deciding their next steps to fight the development.

Several years ago residents won a major victory when a Public Inquiry threw out a supermarket scheme for the site.

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