If you’ve driven down Silverdale Road in Gatley after heavy rain recently, you’ll have seen water pouring off the land on the Cheadle Royal side, across the pavement and down the road to pool by the pub and the parade.

There’s a stream that runs from Cheadle Royal, under the road and across the grass/woodland on the Borrowdale side.  This seems to have got blocked up, leading to water pooling up.  It looked to me like the water was at least a couple of feet deep in places on the Cheadle Royal side, making the path to Cheadle Royal totally unpassable.

I’ve been told today that Council work is now scheduled for the next week or two to sort out any issues where the stream passes under the road itself.  If there are problems where the stream is on private land, those will have to be dealt with separately, but I’m hopeful it can be sorted.