Brilliant news… and oneself has never driven !
Hoping it will take some pressure off the local ‘orbital’ roads… for the sake of us bus passengers.

As one understands the timeline for this project…
early 1990′s – first ‘concrete’ proposals outlined,
mid 1990′s – Tory government sanctions construction ?,
late 1990′s – ‘Nu’Liebore government cancels construction ?,
early 2010′s – coalition government sanctions construction.
Imagine our surprise to learn from a Liebore (woman) politician the other night on the regional television news claiming this project to be one of their making ! – cheeky cow !

i notice hazel grove not mentioned
would you morons like to see the impact this will have on my proporty that i have worked hard for for many years
see you in court for the maximum amount of compensation i can get out of you

the fumes and noise no doubt will not be a problem to you Mr Hunter ??

Finally Great news

This road is long overdue, especially the A34 to airport link. Its a shame that the road is only sheduled to go as far as the A6 and not Bredbury/M60 as first planned. If this road had been built 15 years ago, Woodford may have still been open giving 5000+ jobs to us locals !!!

Bramhall, Poynton, Styal, Hazel Grove(A6) and Gatley are utter nightmares day-in, day-out … we need this road NOW!

Please get the diggers moved in and started before this joke of a government change their minds again!

Hi Simon,

The funding we have from the Government is for the section from Manchester Airport to the A6. We still want to build the section to Bredbury/M60 and will continue to press for funding for that section.

On the consultation period, there isn’t currently any planning permission for the road so that needs to be applied for, along with the correct legal process to hear objections etc.

Hi David,

The scheme being funded by the Government is for the A555 between Manchester Airport and the A6.

The original scheme, going back twenty years or more, was always for the A555 to continue past the A6 to meet the M60 at Bredbury.

It’s certainly no secret, though because nothing has progressed with that section in several years (nor is anything planned for in the next few years) it’s not received much publicity.

Nothing has planning approval yet, and the Hazel Grove to Bredbury probably won’t have in the near future. As I said before, there is no current funding for that section of the road, so no plans for building to start.

Hi David,

As I’ve said in the original article, the next stage of the process is a public consultation and planning application for the Manchester Airport/M56 to Hazel Grove section.

If all goes well, we could see construction start in 2013.

Hi Steve,

I’ll track one down and post it online. The route goes from Ringway Road, has a crossroads with Styal Road (south of the Ringway Road junction), then goes south of Heald Green. On the Hazel Grove side it joins the A6 a little way south of the Rising Sun.

Hi Darren,

The current route for the road takes it just north of the garden centre, I believe, so I guess the house will be very well connected.

Excellent news after many years of stop go. Much more information including the route available on http://www.semmms.info/

Seems good news on the face of it but maybe not for everyone. They always used to say that you never solve a traffic problem – all you do is move it elsewhere.
Also unintended consequences – for example the Handforth bypass has increased the traffic thru Gatley as a lot more traffic now turns right at the lights on the A34.

Having lived in Stockport for 42 years, I am well aware of the delaying tactics used by a small minority of the population to block sensible developements. I am not confident that the proposal to complete the A555 will evade blockage by the flat-earth brigade who will no doubt succeed in discovering a colony or two of rare wildlife whose only habitat in the Northern Hemisphere is on the route of the by-pass.

The country is in crisis and we should not waste time and money on extensive and costly enquiries. We managed to build airfields by the hundred in beautiful country areas in the late 1930s – if we had the will today, we could change the law nationally so that planning decisions could be fast-tracked as in the 1930s.

We and the local economy urgently need this road. Current austerity measures should aim to prioritise expenditure savings by concentrating on non-productive activities such as planning enquiries that should be drastically cost-limited. The resulting savings can be used to alleviate the damage being caused by cuts in other areas such as social care for the elderly, health care, policing, and taking youngsters out of the NEETs category. If the LibDems really are a radical and progressive force in politics, they should take the initiative in introducing policies such as this.

LIke you Lee, we also feel imprisoned in Cheadle – and this I suspect is not going to help us one bit. Far better to have had an INTEGRATED policy that would MAKE traffic avoid the A34 junction, so we can wait less than 20 minutes to turn onto the A34. Mark Hunter has been banging on about this as some sort of win for ages, but its noticeable that Cheadle is not mentioned in the list of places that will benefit. Still I suppose our votes are useful…

And yes I will be objecting.

More houses means more local traffic! Government policies emphasize increasing house building. Their intention for more business development will also add more local traffic. The new road news is good but must not be allowed to excuse filling up green space as it did previously under a Conservative Government. In summary, more development will negate the advantages of the new road. I would expect arguments to appear about the parlous ecenomic state of the nation but as usual ignoring reformation of financial planning, control and its consequences and saying that free (uncontrolled) enterprise is paramount meaning quality of residents life must be further eroded for the profit of the few.

Hi Alan,

I’m glad we were able to get the left filter lane from Gatley a few years ago at the Kingsway junction. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been possible yet to improve the right turn from either Gatley or Cheadle due to safety issues on the junction and – more importantly – the knock-on effect to traffic going straight on, both on Kingsway and on Gatley Road.

However, as you’ll have seen from our regular reports, we are working for an improvement when the Highways Agency upgrade the slip road from the motorway onto Kingsway.

As for the A34 traffic – airport traffic is just one (relatively small) element. Overall, the traffic on the A34 should be reduced and – perhaps more importantly – the traffic on Gatley Road through Gatley and Cheadle should be reduced as well.

It would have been nice if the Manchester Airport M56 to the A6 Hazel Grove A555 Link Road was a 3 lane motorway and the A6 Hazel Grove to M60 Bredbury as a 3 lane motorway because it would have took all the traffic of the A6 in Hazel Grove. I got a map of Manchester in 1962 sawing Manchester Airport – A6 Hazel Grove – M60 Bredbury sections all 3 lane motorways now that would have made more sense. It won’t be long that the A555 link road will be upgraded to a 3 lane motorway maybe after 10 years after the A555 Link Road is completed. Ohh I have got a another map of Manchester in 1945 showing the same route but leaving the M56 and heading towards Sale and the A34 planned as a 3 lane motorway.

Mark Hunter I seen you on that photo before in 2008 when Labour were in power giving funding for the relief road on that same location and here you are now at the same location in 2011 when the coalition government giving funding for the relief road so if the relief road gets cancelled would you be there at the same place with your solutions sk clothes on showing the proposed map of the A555 Relief Road on that A555 terminus on Bramhall.

There’s is no work being done there I don’t see a bulldozer and diggers behind you starting on the bypass so you might as well get your solutions sk green jacket off and stay in the office and keep sharping your pencils and keep dreaming about that bypass because its going be on..off..on..off…on..off. I think you might be there in 50 years time at the same location and they still not done that bypass. I think you will be collcting your pension by then.

A34(M) Anyone