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Wimbolds Trafford in The News

Over the summer of 2010 M&S Money sponsored the local charity Clip Clops to help them get ready for their summer activities. Clip Clops is a voluntary group based in Wimbolds Trafford which allows children to form valuable learning relationships with ponies. At the club, children experience close contact with the ponies (all of whom are rescued), learn about their care, build confidence with animals, interact with other children and have lots of fun.

November 11th, 2010 six fire engines came to attend Heath Farm on Ince Lane where a fire had broke out shortly after midnight. Firefighters had to deal with 50mph winds as they tackled a huge barn blaze which destroyed hundreds of tonnes of hay, straw and wood. Crews used a nearby stream to tackle the fire and had to increase the water pressure due to the heavy winds. The blaze destroyed 300 tonnes of hay and straw and 100 tonnes of wood as well as machinery, which included two trailers. However, the crews prevented the fire from spreading to an 8,000 litre diesel tank or propane gas cylinders, and saved 60 tonnes of bagged nitram fertiliser.

In 2008 an issue came up in Wimbolds Trafford where, the Waste Recycling Group submitted a planning application to increase the height of the Gowy landfill site and to extend its life to 2017. However this was meet with opposition from residents and the parish council of Mickle Trafford. It has told Cheshire County Council that if the tip did not already have approval, it would not now be considered for planning permission and should be closed sooner rather than later. The extra height of the site is not compatible with the flat surrounding area and local people resent the fact its life is extended ‘again and again’.“The original planning application some 20 years ago was opposed but residents were defeated in their objections against it and had to accept that the site would be there”, says the parish council. “It is wrong that the life of the site should be extended yet again. Surely 20 years is long enough for one community to have a landfill site on its doorstep.” Councillors argue the landfill is unsightly to residents of Wimbolds Trafford, Bridge Trafford and Picton and virtually all the traffic to and from the tip passes through Mickle Trafford and Bridge Trafford.