A Cheshire council leader is being urged to resign after it emerged he had written a letter backing a new town of 20,000 homes for the area, which led to it being listed on the government’s list of proposed sites and has since sparked a huge backlash.
Residents said they were blindsided when Adlington appeared on the government’s list of 12 proposed sites for new towns across England, with work on at least three due to start this parliament.
It later emerged the Labour leader of Cheshire East, Nick
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