In a report to the planning committee last year, the council's planning officers referred to parking and traffic in their reasons for recommending refusal. It's a huge imposition on a suburban site." He said: "We believe it's overdevelopment. Simon Miles, who also lives in Parrs Wood Avenue, described the ratio of apartments to parking spaces provided as 'inordinate', claiming that parking on the neighbouring roads is already 'at capacity' sometimes. She said: "Once this is built, traffic will get worse." Tracy Lyn, Simon Miles and Sandra Hill joined by protestors at the Tesco car park in East Didsbury (Andrew Simcock) She said that the junction by the south Manchester supermarket is already congested at rush hour, claiming that traffic is often backed up all the way to Burnage and into Stockport. She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "We feel let down." Tracy Lyn, who lives in Parrs Wood Avenue, brought a balloon which was raised above the clock tower - which dates back to the period when the site was a bus station - using ribbon to illustrate how tall the new development would be. Tesco still owns the site, but the supermarket is working with Dandara which has applied for planning permission to develop it. They came together at the clock tower at the Tesco car park where the six-storey scheme is planned for a recent protest. The fight to stop the development has now been left to residents and local councillors who oppose it. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community
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