New pavement boost for Gatley village centre
September 28, 2011 Iain Roberts 15 Comments

The Lib Dem team have secured a new pavement for Church Road, Gatley with more improvements to Gatley Green and Cheadle planned to follow.

The new pavement, which some people may have seen being measured up over the last few days, will run on the south east side of Church Road, from the old Nat West down to the Prince of Wales.  We hope to see the pavement laid down in the spring.

Over the next few months, residents in Gatley Green will be consulted on improvements there (we hope to get a good balance between improving the parking situation for residents, ensuring parking for shoppers, making the road safer and improving the Green).

We’re also starting to think about what might be done in Cheadle, and we’ll be looking for ideas on that from residents, so do get in touch if you’ve got any thoughts.

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15 Comments

1
Andy
Wednesday 28 September 2011 - 7:53 pm

Continued planning for the provision of parking for motor vehicles only encourages … more motor vehicles.

Pedestrians and cyclists should be the priority, Gatley has an excellent rail link with decent links with public transport, they need to be promoted.

Greater,easier provision for motor vehicles will only be detrimental to the area, one of the greatest initiatives would to be impose a 20 mph speed limit through the village.

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phil
Wednesday 28 September 2011 - 11:05 pm

Perhaps the council could look at the parking problem at the station and talk to Network Rail. I live near the station and ‘off road’ parking has now become a serious problem. All good and proper to improve rail links but what about the car park. Last week I was unable to park in my drive and a delivery vehicle could not get access down the road due to double parking.

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allatsea
Friday 30 September 2011 - 7:36 am

At Gatley Green can you arrange to get some parking restriction signs mounted on the already installed posts on Church Road between the Prince of Wales and the Gatley Green bus stop, the restriction should be for morning and evening rush hours. There have been single yellow lines marked on the road since the pedestrian refuge was installed opposite the Co-op.

Also, how about getting the contractors to finish off the last project. On the island for the Memorial Clock there are 2 traffic cones covering the unfinished paving, must have been like this for 6 months or more.

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jean skitt
Sunday 2 October 2011 - 1:20 pm

And, back to the nightmare of Old Hall Road, stop the parking outside the Mousam , if only by two car spaces, which would facilitate easier turning into Old Hall Road from the left at the H & F and also stop parking on the H & F side of Old Hall Road…. for everybody’s sake, this junction has become a nightmare !!!!!!!!! and why should pedestrians have to take their life in their hands because cars drive on the pavement?????????

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Silvi
Sunday 2 October 2011 - 1:29 pm

Also all Belmont Road in Gatley is in a horrible state! Somebody should look and do something to improve it!

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Anne
Sunday 2 October 2011 - 2:35 pm

Agree with Phil and Jean Skitt’s comments. Both situations are really bad.

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B. Horstmann
Sunday 2 October 2011 - 4:58 pm

Could we find room for cycle stands outside the car park by the Coop?

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Carole & David
Sunday 2 October 2011 - 7:19 pm

Pleased to hear that you are contemplating work on pavements in the Cheadle area and hope Daylesford Cres. will be considered as we have been promised. Maybe then people (particularly older and people with walking difficulties)will be able to take a walk around the area as it is unsafe to do so now!!! Also we wish to mention that we have to pay our gardener to mow and edge the grass verge of the pavement to keep the outside of our bungalow looking neat. Surely we pay council tax for these jobs to be done.
Still nothing has been done about the potholes on Kingsway slip road where it meets Broadway.

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Mark
Monday 3 October 2011 - 9:29 am

I would like to see a traffic light/Pelican crossing by the Prince of Wales pub and the Coop store – a lot of people are now crossing at this point and it would also help to slow down cars that do speed through Gatley.

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Geoff S
Monday 3 October 2011 - 10:21 am

Residents parking on Gatley Green is a nightmare. It’s about time we were allowed a ‘Restricted parking – Residents Only’ especially during the evening. I have seen people leave cars there with For Sale signs on and also people with luggage who go to the railway station and leave there car there for 2-weeks whilst they went on holiday. The ‘One Way’ and ‘No Entry’ signs are ignored, are hidden with overhanging tree branches – even though the council have been informed months ago. Flower beds on the Green have now been grassed over by the council ‘due to cutbacks’ and what was once a beautiful village centre oasis to sit, and popular for wedding photographs has now become boring with overflowing litter bins.
‘Conservation Area’ – get real – where is the variety in shopping mix such as Cheadle,Gatley is becoming a mini supermarket/takeout TIP that smells from lunchtime to late evening. And the latest news !!!!!!!!! We are getting a massive WELCOME TO GATLEY sign over the front entrance to the Tatton eyesore. Hang your heads in shame members of all political parties for Gatley.

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DR C
Monday 3 October 2011 - 4:24 pm

re:Geoff S – here, here, here… and oneself does not even live by the green (guessing you do ?).
Time they removed those crumbling concrete posts, but, not to replace them – the beach hedge looks far better.
One knows (not by name – just passing) of at least one outsider who will always park alongside the green if she can – she claims the car park beside the nearby co-operative be unsafe – vandalism and broken glass on the surface were quoted. She then boards a Bullocks coaches pick-up service like moi. so she be away for the day. A cheeky old cow methinks !

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phil
Monday 3 October 2011 - 10:09 pm

Seems like a few of us are in the same boat regarding parking. I agree with the comment regarding Residents Parking, why cannot we have this in Gatley ( especially around the station and the green) they have it in Cheadle.

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Iain Roberts
Monday 3 October 2011 - 10:25 pm

Hi Phil,

Residents parking is useful when people are unable to park near their own houses (i.e. don’t have drives and other cars park up on the road). It might well be worth looking at along Gatley Green, perhaps in the evenings.

However, residents parking doesn’t stop cars parking, it just moves them around, so if we stop cars coming to one road, they’ll normally park in another one. Plus there are many people – not least the traders in Gatley – who are very concerned at how little parking there is at the moment, so it’s a balance.

Cheadle has almost no residents parking (just a very small amount on Massie Street and Chapel Street), but may get more soon.

Definitely an option to look at on a case-by-case basis.

Iain

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Geoff S
Wednesday 5 October 2011 - 5:29 pm

Interesting to note that although Gatley is short of parking yet just today (Wednesday 5th Oct) there are 5 cars parked outside Bosco with FOR SALE signs on them. Has Bosco now added car sales to his offering or is this a Car Dealer in the village paying business rates and rent for the plot?

Come on somebody – have them removed

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Andy
Saturday 8 October 2011 - 12:28 pm

The “Balance” has been in favour of the motor vehicle for over 30yrs to the detriment of us all, including local traders.

STOP pandering to the motocentric society, all those that do are causing a catalogue of ills.



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