Kingswater Development, Greater Manchester

EDM number 1151 in 1990-91, proposed by Gerald Kaufman on 17/07/1991.

That this House calls upon North West Water plc to come clean about the costs and expected financial profits of its proposed Kingswater Park development, which it has so far concealed from local residents, shareholders and the Department of the Environment; therefore calls on North West Water plc to publish before the inquiry opens the estimated cost of constructing the development, the cost of providing road access to the site and the cost of buying land and developing a replacement golf course elsewhere, the expected prices that will have to be paid for houses built on the site and the expected rents for floor space in the business park; deeply regrets the intention of North West Water plc to continue with its proposals for a business park at Audenshaw, to be known as the Kingswater development, taking in one of the few remaining open spaces on the East side of Greater Manchester, is delighted that the Secretary of State for the Environment has set up a public inquiry into the proposals; and even at this stage calls on North West Water plc to abandon the proposal and concentrate on providing pure water and a first class sewage disposal system for the people of the North West of England.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.