Heald Green Ratepayers

The association was formed in 1927 following the creation of the Heald Green electoral ward.{{cite news |last=Scapens |first=Apex |date=10 January 2018 |title=Nine decades in community |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/stockport-express/20180110/page/8/textview|url-access=limited |work=Stockport Express|access-date=17 May 2021|via=PressReader}}

In 1962, the ratepayers' launched a community magazine named CONTACT.

The ratepayers' association would become entangled with the construction and development of runways at Manchester Airport several times through its history. As far back as April 1960, the association joined forces with the Hale Barns and Handforth ratepayer associations to spearhead opposition against the development of the new runways, due to noise pollution concerns.{{cite journal |last1=Simmons |first1=Collin |last2=Caruana|first2=Viv|date=1 September 1994|title=Neighbourhood Issues in the Development of Manchester Airport, 1934–82 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002252669401500203?journalCode=jthc |url-access=subscription|journal=Journal of Transport History|volume=15|issue=2 |pages=125–130 |doi=10.1177/002252669401500203|s2cid=142479191 |issn=1759-3999|access-date=18 May 2021}} During a meeting of the Manchester Airport Consultative Committee, founded by the airport in 1969,{{cite web |url=https://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/community/consultative-committee/ |title=Consultative Committee|website=Manchester Airport|access-date=18 May 2021}} the chair stated "we are watching the airport consultative committee like hawks and we shall not hesitate to give it a kick in the right place."{{cite magazine|date=21 May 1970 |title=Ringway Airport|volume=1–26|page=101|magazine=NVB: Noise & Vibration |issn=0029-0947}} In 1997, the group began campaigning alongside local groups such as the Manchester Airport Joint Action Group and the Stockport Campaign Against Runway Extension against the construction of Runway 2.{{cite journal |last1=Livramento |first1=Eloise|last2=Böhm|first2=Steffen|last3=Mendonca|first3=Patricia|date=6 August 2012|journal=Revista de Administração de Empresas|title=Organizing Resistance Movements: The Contribution of Political Discourse Theory |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263087548 |format=PDF |volume=54 |page=145 |issn=0034-7590}}{{cite journal |last1=Griggs |first1=Steven|last2=Howarth |first2=David |date=2002 |title=An Alliance of Interest and Identity? Explaining The Campaign Against Manchester Airport's Second Runway |url=https://meridian.allenpress.com/mobilization/article-abstract/7/1/43/83040/An-Alliance-of-Interest-and-Identity-Explaining|url-access=subscription |journal=Mobilization|volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=43–58 |doi=10.17813/maiq.7.1.h0462v2m54554864}} Councillor Peter Burns made a statement on the runway in 2005, nearly four years following its construction amid local complaints: "I feel that Manchester Airport has already broken an undertaking given to residents under the flight path of this runway - and it had only been open for 102 hours." A spokesperson for Manchester Airport stated that due to debris, planes were forced to land on the second runway from the Stockport direction.{{cite news |author= |title=Not a 'runway' success with the neighbours |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/not-a-runway-success-with-the-neighbours-1173642 |work=Manchester Evening News|date=9 April 2005|access-date=18 May 2021}}

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