‘The face of Stockport would be fundamentally changed and irreversibly disfigured’

It is a town's signature in bricks and mortar, and has been described as "monumental" by a famous artist. An influential heritage group, the Victorian Society, fears Stockport Viaduct, a major feat of British engineering and a pioneering structure of the early railway age, will be "badly impacted and views around it destroyed" by recently submitted plans for development around it. The Society is calling on the public to object to the plans as they currently stand.