TSC, if it were my profession then yes I would.

Surely that is what I am being paid for?

An advisor is by the very title someone to advise based on their knowledge and experience. I'm not suggesting that he will be right but he is going to have a much better idea than the average person on the street.

Bottom line - if you give advice on any subject you can't sit on the fence forever.

   Totty would you put your head on the chopping block and start advising about 500m pound projects given the times we will in currently?

I am sure whoever that indepedent planner is has more sense than that.

   TSC, I believe you misread my initial post.

I don't expect a crystal ball, as I said in my original message I expect someone in the planning industry to be able to make an educated guess at whether or not a £500 million redevelopment would be advisable at this present moment in time.

I'm not asking for a definitive prediction as to future property market trends, just that a planning advisor is able to advise on future plans.

   No totty, you are wrong. Being a planner certainly doesnt come with a crystal ball and is a very different skill wise to predicting future property trends.

   Alan Black, MBC’s independent planning advisor from DTZ, said: "Every major development company is going to have difficulties, but I think Macclesfield has no worries. But I can’t look into the future, and I’m not an economist."

I'm sorry? We have an independent planning advisor who doesn't want to make an educated guess on the future of the property market? The future property market would be his Mastermind specialist subject surely??

   I hope the plans do end up on the scrapheap.

   Yeah, a proper cinema with a balcony like we used to have. I believe there's one hiding on Mill Street they could use!

   Can we just have the cinema pls