Alty is intrinsically economically and socially linked into the Manc urban area. As much as Ealing is to London. The term town is utterly meaningless today, Alty was founded as a town in 1290 (from m… (View Post)

You have quite literally no idea about Manchester. I live in Sale, between Stretford and Alty and consider myself far more aware of the local area than someone who comes across as disconnected from a… (View Post)

You miss the point. No one would ever think of a local authority boundary as relevant to any sort of urban planning would they ? Even you can spot that I assume ? (View Post)

Look at the maps on this page just to see how much Stockport and Alty actually are part of the urban area around Manchester, without a rural gap. Yep, places like Wigan which are in Greater Mancheste… (View Post)

So just like London is a tiny place in the middle of an urban sprawl surrounded by loads of historical towns that have merged together to form a massive urban area ? Yep, they may be 'towns'… (View Post)