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Furious councillors are demanding to know why they weren’t informed of proposals for a 20,000-home new town.

The government released a report from the new towns taskforce on Sunday revealing landowners Belport Adlington Limited had submitted proposals for a standalone new town of 14,000 to 20,000 homes on approximately 970 hectares of greenfield land around the existing Cheshire village of Adlington - less than a mile from the Greater Manchester border.

The first ward councillors and neighbouring councillors at Poynton knew of it was when the announcement about the 12 national sites suggested as possible locations for new towns was made public – and included Adlington.

A furious Cllr Michael Beanland (Poynton West & Adlington, Con) told the Local Democracy Reporting Servi

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