"We've been fighting this for five years now," Marj says as she looks out onto Carrington Moss. The 325 hectares of precious peatland, home to the endangered willow tit and water vole, is well used by walkers, cyclists and horseriders.
But their habitat is under threat from plans to build up to 5,000 new homes, 350,000sqm of warehouse space and a new road right through the middle. New Carrington - the name given to the 1,153ha site in Trafford - is one of 38 sites in Greater Manchester which have been earmarked for development.
Places for Everyone, the successor of the ill-fated spatial framework which Stockport pulled out of in late 2020, sets out a vision for the next 15 years. The controversial masterplan maps out where almost 165,000 new homes would be built in the remaining nine Greater Manchester boroughs by 2037.
