http://bdaily.co.uk/industrials/12-04-2013/stockport-council-sign-deal-with-canada-life/

This seems a complex storey.

Is this attempting a commercial/retail/hotel area in competition with Airport City?

Council (tax payers) leases land from Network Rail.

Somebody else builds on it.

If Stockport Council’s attempt to build a thriving/competing hub fails, who ends up footing the bill?

Then harken to the carping?