On Wednesday, 10 November at 7.00 pm Steve Parker from the South Lancashire Bat Group will be giving us a talk and video for about an hour at the Green Room, Gatley Hill House. We’ll be taking 1st Gatley Cubs along – they’ve already seen the bat boxes erected on Gatley Carrs where dusk in [...]

Stockport has hundreds of miles of pavements.  Some have been redone recently, others are in poor condition.  The Borough is working to get round them, but with money being limited it takes longer than we’d like. In addition to roads where the pavement has been fully re-done (e.g. Wensley Road this year), Pam and I [...]

I’ve reported graffiti on Gatley Rec Ground, outside the ground on the lit bollards in Northenden Road and on the green Comms box at the junction of Daylesford Road and Daylesford Crescent in Cheadle. On Gatley Rec there’s a bit of graffiti on the old toilet block, on the skateboard ramp and one of the [...]

There have been a couple of incidents around Oakwood Avenue/Church Road in Gatley with fires being set and fireworks thrown around – the police are aware and Pam and I will be speaking to them surely to make sure everything fitting together from our side too in the run up to 5th November. Pam’s been [...]

2004 is the last in my series of election results from 1973 onwards. Following significant boundary changes, all 63 Stockport council seats were up for grabs. 10/06/04                   2004         Stockport                   Bramhall North     [...]

Stockport councillors are now holding the council to account on it’s use of RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act). RIPA regulates the ways public bodies are permitted to use covert surveillance (or to spy on people, if you prefer to look at it that way). Last year Stockport used RIPA four times – once to [...]

Cheadle MP Mark Hunter has joined the growing band of MPs on Twitter, where he tweets as markhuntermp. You can also follow me on Twitter at CllrIainRoberts.

Work will start on the upgrade to the crossing at the railway bridge by Gatley Station on 1st November, expected to last about three weeks.  Update: the start has been delayed by a few days due to the previous job the workmen are doing taking a little longer. Here are the details: Signed Letter to [...]

As you may know, Labour were adding £400 million to the national debt every day by the time they left office, and spending £4 for every £3 raised in tax.  That’s simply not sustainable and I’ve supported calls to sort out our huge deficit since I had the chance to question Nick Clegg about it [...]

From Stockport Council: Stockport Council has joined forces with 22 other local authorities from across the North West on an exciting campaign to find new foster carers. The “You Can Foster” campaign will kick off on Thursday 28th October with a TV advert being aired on ITV Granada and radio adverts running on Smooth and [...]