Paul Lawrence, who heads up Regeneration at Stockport Council, came to the Gatley Village Partnership on Tuesday. Although he didn’t have anything new to tell us about progress on the Tatton site, this seems like a good opportunity to say where we are. Everyone in the village wants something to happen to the Tatton site, [...]

The plan to put down double yellow lines along the length of Cheadle High Street was approved at Cheadle Area Committee last week following a consultation. Currently there are single yellow lines. The idea is that the double yellow lines (with restricted loading times allowed for the shops) will discourage the illegal parking that can [...]

Thanks are due to the organisers of the Gatley Rec Stream Clean – part of this year’s Gatley Festival. In all I think there were about twenty people helping out on Sunday morning, including a good number of Cubs, Scouts and their parents, and we not only cleaned up the stream where it runs past [...]

Heald Green Festival seemed packed today – busier than I can remember it. And that’s both a bit of a surprise and testament to the work of the organisers as it wasn’t exactly perfect festival weather, with most of the day being cloudy and dull and parts of it being more than a little wet. [...]

Mark Hunter and I visited the Word in Season Flower Festival at St Mary’s Church, Cheadle this afternoon. It’s running until Sunday and I’d encourage anyone to go if you can – it’s well worth the visit. The Festival celebrates the 400th anniversary of the translation of the King James Bible, and the different designs [...]

For anyone thinking of going to university, or at university or who just wants to understand what the changes in student loans and tuition fees will mean, this guide on Money Saving Expert is excellent. As I’ve said to people who have contacted me concerned about the new structure, there should be no-one who doesn’t [...]

Come along to Gatley Carrs and help clear away some of the balsam clogging up parts of the Carrs – help improve the nature reserve and de-stress at the same time! The Balsam Bash will be on Tuesday 5th July at 10am.  Meet at the car park on Gatley Carrs (see map). View Cheadle and [...]

Stockport shares our waste and recycling disposal with the nine other Greater Manchester authorities, and the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority is the body that runs it all. This website shows where all our recycling goes (and, contrary to occasional odd stories in the media, none of it gets shipped to the Far East!).

This is National Bike Week, so why not give cycling a try. At Gatley Primary School, the bike racks are filling up each day now (mostly bikes, but a couple of unicycles too!). I cycled to the Town Hall this morning – as I do quite often.  I’m not the fastest cyclist around, but I [...]

The Council has been looking at further flooding issues on Styal Road, Gatley and the hope is that the problems are understood and should soon be sorted out. There seem to have been two main issues. One is detritus being washed down and gathering at the bottom, blocking some gulleys. The second is one of [...]