That’s the slightly bizarre claim being made in the Daily Express and Daily Mail today. Residents of Stockport need only pop into their local chippy to confirm that the story isn’t true, but where’s it come from?  Here’s the slightly less exciting truth behind the fiction: ASK CAMPAIGN – ENCOURAGING A REDUCED SALT USE Dr [...]

The police were out in force on the South Park Road Estate this morning, handing out fines to motorists using it to perform an illegal u-turn onto Kingsway northbound. Pam and I have been contacted by several residents pleased at the action, and we’ve passed our thanks onto the police . Here are a couple [...]

One of this week’s planning applications has an interesting story behind it. Application 46586 is to change 2 Old Hall Road, Gatley from a Hairdressing salon into a two bedroom flat.  The salon (the one above the Tatton Salon) is closing down, with one of the hairdressers moving into the Tatton Salon, with a separate [...]

Looking through this week’s new planning applications, there are a couple in the village centres. 46447 is to convert the vacant office at 12A High Street, Cheadle into two flats.  It’s a first floor office on the High Street near the junction with Ashfield Road. 46325 is for two new air conditioning condensers to be [...]

A little tip I’ve come across – there’s quite a good search facility for finding information that’s appeared in published Stockport Council commitee papers (and nearly all of them are publically available). You can use the search facility here. There’s a bug in there at the moment – some of the files it returns are [...]

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At Area Committee on Tuesday we had a further discussion about the problem on St Ann’s Road North where between 5 and 15 cars have taken to parking near Cheadle Royal, causing problems on the road. Please take a look at my previous posts on this subject for the background details. The result of the [...]

At Cheadle Area Committee on Tuesday, it was confirmed that Pam’s request for leaves to be cleared from Ashfield Road was being done. Pam’s also requested that litter be cleared from Gatley Station, and Network Rail have now done that (including a Manchester Council wheelie bin in a trolley found underneath the platform!). It was [...]

After our consultation with South Park Road residents via this blog, Pam and I have progress to report. I had a conversation with Inspector Steve Gilbertson on Monday about enforcement and I’m very happy to say that Steve has now publically promised that police will be on the Kingsway Service Road next week handing out [...]

The new community toilets are a very positive development, allowing Stockport to have more toilets for public use than ever before, but councillors from all sides have been concerned that we need to do more to publicise their locations.  It didn’t help, of course, that the Stockport Times ran stories giving the impression that we [...]