The Accessibility Appraisal Consultation Paper is part of Stockport Council’s Core Strategy – how the borough needs to develop over the next 15-20 years.  The document is being consulted on and you have until 25th November to give your opinions. This is my summary of that paper.  Since the full document is 82 pages, you [...]

I’ve nothing new to report on the Tatton beyond my last posting, but I wanted to say that it’s something all your councillors are working hard on right now and we’ll let you have more information as soon as there’s something firm.

During a busy morning around Cheadle and Gatley today, I checked out more blocked grids on Gatley Road (now reported), popped into the Gatley Green Co-op and the Foxland Road Spar to check on a couple of issues, went down to Yew Tree Close  to take a look for a forthcoming planning application (DC/042877) and [...]

Most of the things I get involved with are pretty immediate.  Problems that need fixing as soon as possible, or at most issues like the Kingsway filter that might take a couple of years to sort out. So thinking about how I see Stockport developing up to 2026 requires a bit of a shift in [...]

Update: here is the information on firework events for 2010. Sadly there will be no bonfire/fireworks display at Together Trust on Schools Hill, Cheadle this year. AboutMyArea has the full story. So where can you go for a bonfire and fireworks? Two places to look:  Kidsguide and  Stockport Express.

The next Cheadle Area Committee meeting is at 6pm on Tuesday 3rd November. This is a meeting open to the public (we’d love more people to come along) and held at the Ladybridge Residents Club, Edenbridge Road, Cheadle Hulme. You can hopefully access the agenda here (83 pages this time, but most of that’s supporting [...]

Currently Stockport, like most local authorities, is run on a leader/executive model.  The leader of the Council is a councillor (currently Dave Goddard for Stockport; the two previous leaders were Brian Millard and Mark Hunter). Each year all the councillors elect the leader (in practise, the leader of the Council is chosen by the Lib [...]

Oh, the high powered life of a local councillor.  Yesterday afternoon I had a two hour introductory session on local government finance, then last evening I walked around Gatley, visiting a couple of people,  and spotted some streetlamps that aren’t working.  If only I’d taken photos, I might have featured on the wonderful glum councillors [...]

Come along to the sixth annual Fairtrade Fair at Stockport College, 10.30am – 3.30pm Saturday November 14th at Stockport College on the A6. poster-2009-v3.pdf

I’ve got a big leaflet (A2 fold-out) from Stockport Art Gallery with details of lots of events between now and February. Far too much to detail here, but it includes: Creative writing workshops and competition Poetry workshops “Who do we think we are” exhibition including art workshops, dance performances, “trace your family history” and dance [...]