The residents of Hawk Green have had enough. They want the landbankers out of their village.

Their anger shows an often forgotten facet of landbanking - the effect on local communities when companies buy agricultural land in their midst and then sell it on at a huge profit.

Now Hawk Green, on the edge of Stockport and overlooking Greater Manchester's green belt and the Derbyshire dales, is mobilising. Local residents and their MP want the landbankers to shut up shop.

The landbankers are PropertySpy, based in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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