A planning application for the Carrington Relief Road is due soon
A senior councillor has warned of a potential ‘environmental disaster’ if a £76.5m relief road is built over the contaminated land of a former oil refinery in Trafford. The vice-chair of the authority’s scrutiny committee, Coun John Holden, voiced concern the controversial scheme for the Carrington Relief Road could be ‘opening up a Pandora’s box’.
READ MORE: "I thought it was crazy": Furious residents of swanky city centre flats handed HUGE bills with 'scare tactic'... over a YEAR after they left “We know we are going to have to design a completely separate drainage system to avoid contamination of the groundwater, or cross-contamination,” he said. “It is absolutely an issue of concern.
Executive member for economy and regeneration, Coun Liz Patel, added: “It’s a complex contamination that’s relatively newly understood.”
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