As Stockport Council is reporting: The M60 in Stockport will be closed overnight throughout October due to Network Rail maintenance work on Stockport Viaduct. The M60 will be closed clockwise between Junctions 26 (A560 Crookilley Way) and 1 (Stockport Pyramid) and anti-clockwise between Junctions 1 and 27 (Portwood). The work will be carried out from [...]

Stockport Council is launching a three-month consultation on next year’s budget. Following last year’s £16 million savings, the Council has to find a further £13.5 million in savings this year, and to balance the budget at the end of the process. The proposals being put forward for consultation involve losing around 160 posts, of which [...]

The upgrade to Manchester Airport’s runway 1, which has been in progress since February, is set to be extended for a couple of months. This means that, instead of completing in September, the target completion date is now 11th November 2011. Whilst runway 1 is being upgraded, night-time flights have been using runway 2, which [...]

The Council has launched a consultation asking people in Stockport for their views on the future of sport and leisure facilities in the borough. There are currently 16 sports and leisure facilities throughout the borough, which are owned by the Council and run on their behalf by Stockport Sports Trust. To ensure it can continue [...]

PC Dave Wright (Heald Green) and PC Mark Shaw (Gatley) came to Cheadle Area Committee on Tuesday to give us an update on their activities in the area. On this occasion, we didn’t have someone from Cheadle – it depends who the police can spare to send along on a particular evening. Although we didn’t [...]

Following complaints from residents, the Council has issued a legal notice requiring Virgin Media to fix the broken cover in the pavement on Ashfield Road, by the junction with Ashfield Crescent, Cheadle (near the library). We’ve effectively had a big hole in the pavement, covered over with some fencing, and Virgin Media have taken far [...]

Over a hundred signs advertising a “charity car wash” have been removed from streetlights and lampposts around Stockport. They were put up illegally, without permission. The sign material was wrong and the signs slipped down in the rain, often obscuring visibility. The same company has been putting up signs in East Cheshire, Trafford and elsewhere. [...]

On Tuesday morning I spent a fascinating couple of hours finding out what it’s like to be in a mobility scooter in Stockport town centre. I was ably escorted on my tour by Stephanie, Vice-Chair of Shopmobility and by Shopmobility manager John Leatherbarrow. Shopmobility is the charity – part Council funded – that hires out [...]

Following extensive investigations by Stockport Council, the cause of flooding on Styal Road in recent months has been pinned down to a main sewer that’s the responsibility of United Utilities. The Council have done some work cleaning out grids and drains, but need UU to do their bit. The Council have asked UU to do [...]

Mary Street car park is looking much improved, having been resurfaced earlier this month. In addition to the new surface, the layout of the spaces has been slightly changed – the number of spaces is the same but each space has been made a little larger by reorganising the space. Finally, there have been problems [...]