Residents lose battle to prevent 24/7 operation of industrial site

Residents have lost their battle to prevent the 24/7 operation of an industrial site just 20 metres from their homes. The redevelopment of one of the oldest and largest sites in Trafford has been given the green light - with occupiers given carte blanche to operate when they please, 365 days a year.

Councillors on the borough's planning and development management committee gave the plan for the former Cartwright Group site in the Broadheath Industrial Area the thumbs up at a meeting last night (Thursday June 9).

The trailer manufacturing company went into administration in 2020 and the site on Atlantic Street has been vacant ever since. The proposals could lead to 380 full-time jobs, mitigating the loss of 650 jobs when Cartwright closed two years ago, the committee was told by officers.

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But some 350 residents living on the opposite side of the Bridgewater Canal on the south side of the 11.6-acre site wanted the hours of operation of the new occupants there restricted.

Trafford's Green Party leader and Altrincham councillor Daniel Jerrome, addressed the meeting on behalf of the residents, some of whom, he said, live just 20 metres from the site.

He continued: "There have been many complaints about noise coming from the site in the past - Cartwright employees shouting, radios blaring, trucks reversing with alarms sounding. They are praying these problems don't reoccur.

"Residents' lives were continually blighted by the prior 24/hour seven days a week work operation of Cartwright. There can be no guarantee that residents can be protected from the noise nuisance."

He said that an acoustic fence on the south side of the site which is part