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Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
What were the local issues four decades ago?
Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
Lib Dem plans for Cheadle village – we want your views
by Lib Dem team on 3 March, 2012
If you’ve been in Cheadle in the last few days you might have noticed people with flourescent jackets doing traffic counts. This is the first stage of ambitious Lib Dem plans to improve the village centre and make a real difference to Cheadle.
Keith Holloway said “Cheadle village is a busy centre. how it can be further improved over the next few years, and we’ll be working with local residents and businesses to find the right approach.”
The money will focus on improvements to roads and pavements.
Suggestions already made include:
• Using the improvements planned for the motorway slip road onto Kingsway to direct more Gatley-bound traffic via the motorway.
• Laying new pavements in the village centre
• Extra pedestrian crossings on the High Street so people can move about the village more easily.
• Some short-stay free parking bays on the High Street (set into the pavement so as to not disrupt traffic flow).
• Mini-roundabouts at the Wilmslow Road junction and the Manchester Road junction, allowing pavements to be widened and more space in front of St Mary’s Church.
The work is currently at the early stages. Nothing is decided, nor will be before a full consultation over the summer. At this stage, we want to get lots of ideas from people to make sure we don’t miss that great idea when the consultation comes.
17 Comments
Selfish response: I tend to only pass through Cheadle high street on my bike, and it’s a definite bottle neck between Stockport and south Manchester.At busy times traffic really gets close. Not sure where you’d put them, but cycle lanes encouraging traffic to keep is distance would be welcome.
Clear All the advertising boards off the pavements so shoppers and wheelchairs can pass freely, the shops have large windows to advertise their goods and services.Howabout allowing 1hrs free carparking in the carparks? and increase the rate for stays over 1hr to recoup the lost revenue.
Maybe BT could be persuaded to do something with its building, not only is it an eyesore it’s also a waste of prime retail space right in the heart of the high street. I’m not sure about two pelican crossings in the village, it works in Handforth but they have one road here in Cheadle at both ends of the high street two roads converge, it could be a potential for traffic chaos.
Definitely against the short stay parking bays. Its 30p in the car park and they WILL be abused. as it is now people park on the zigs zags by the pelican crossing. In short; they just don’t care and the only way to make them aware is by consistently fining them for transgressing eh law.
There is a very easy solution to the parking in Cheadle – the car parks should be free for the first 30 minutes. This would encourage people to come in for their quick shopping and help local shops. It would also stop people parking on the High Street for their quick local shop. Easy.
Please get something done about the parking – especially on Mary Street. It’s a nightmare.
why not divert bikes to the non-major routes. it will be safer for them and cause less worry to the already stressed motorists who have to put up with “Jay-Walkers” (i know, an amercian term, but i cant think of an english equivalent) and cylclists who weave in and out and dont stop at red lights!
Sort out the parking in front of the post office.
The design of the parking means it is actually quite difficult to park well in them when it is busy, and the disabled spaces are badly abused.
If the post office allowed it, the dead bit of grass in front of the collections office could be used to have the parking bays be roughly perpendicular to the building rather than roughly parallel with it without needing the road to be altered, or losing a footpath. It is a one-way road, so a slightly diagonally offset arrangement would make getting into and out of the bays easy. It would also probably allow more spaces while giving adequate space to the diabled spaces.
Multiple zebra crossings in the middle of the village to allow easier on-demand crossing but remove the pelican crossing (or whatever the traffic-lit one is called) to reduce the impact.
Sort out the paving – it is very difficult for folk who have difficulty walking or use a wheelchar, and I assume it is also true for parents with buggies.
While I understand why businesses want A-signs on the pavement, they really do get badly in the way.
place a roundabout at the other end by the George and dragon pub with rush hour traffic lights.
I would NOT like to see parking bays on the High Street. Parking is already mis used. Would like to see some encouragement of the ‘cafe culture’ feel you get in Didsbury. The front of the BT building with a cafe/bistro/restaurant or something on the ground floor of new Warwick Mall would be a start perhaps. Wider pavements, single file with a few pull ins for buses and loading might give options for businesses in the village to have outside seating and stop people from abandoning their cars. Maybe not feasible but some outside the box thinking required and presumably the local traders are being consulted.
The car parks need to signposted in a better way so that visitors are aware of them. Cheadle has good parking but people who pass through often do not notice them.
Good idea re post office parking if policed properly.
Send in the BULLDOZERS !
No, honest… Cheadle High Street has all the charm of a shanty town !! The buildings which line it whether old or new are a higgledy-piggledy mediocre mish-mash of styles.
Cheadle likes to think of itself as ‘respectable’ – NOT GOING BY THE HIGH STREET IT AINT !!!
Just to back up Alan Gent’scomments…but this is a first for me. Vehicle on zigzags by bus stop,driver absent, young male(teens I think) & motor running….TAXI. Driver appeared after 5 mins or so, he’d been shopping for loo rolls in Q.Save.
Are we in with a chance to improve the area!!!!
comments:
9) I agree with every comment.
8) great idea.
7) all great ideas.
4&5) free parking for 30 minutes would definitely mean less illegal parking, after all if you only need to do someting that takes 10 minutes why do you have to pay for 2 hours. In altincham parking costs 10p for 1 hour – much more reasonable and sensible.
2) also a good idea.
One of the main problems is that the crossing causes huge tailbacks, more light controlled crossings are NOT the answer.
I certainly agree with Barbara, we should be encouraging a more cafe culture feel to the village and not removing pavements for parking. There is ample parking and I also agree with Karen, lets do first half an hour free so that people pop in to village more instead of whizzing into Tesco or coop and illegally parking in the bus stops. Half an hour free would give you time to go to the butchers/fruit and veg/cobblers etc. Let us focus on preserving our wonderful high street as not many other villages have theres left.
Please do not reduce our pavements, if anything we should be looking to increase/enhance this facility viz. coffee stops. Paramount importance on reducednative estsab cost of parking for 1st 30 mins.Encourage van/delivery drivers to use service roads at rear of shops. The aim must be to keep the High St. free of parked vehicles & the pavements free of cyclists. Say No to short term parking bays, which will achieve nothing,in fact will encourage a parade of drivers seeking such bays.
Regular visits from traffic wardens is the answer.
Firstly traffic needs to be slowed to the speed limits when approaching Cheadle village, they are all set at 30mph, but traffic reaches speeds much higher than this when coming from Roscos roundabout direction towards village!
Secondly how about all persons working in Cheadle have a parking permit for the car parks? As it is shop/bank personel dump their cars in surrounding roads (sometimes restricting access to my garage!) and disappear for 8 hours or more, and/or residents only parking for Bulkeley, New Hay and Newboult roads?
Thirdly a serious amount of street cleaning/grid unblocking/dog poo removal needs to be done.
This is probably enough to deal with at the moment,so I will stop ranting!
1. Parking permits/parking schemes for people working in the village. I live in Warren Avenue and would NOT like to see permit parking on this road but I would like to see the council try harder to encourage local businesses to use the village car parks rather than using resident permit parking as the only answer.
3. Agree 30 mins free parking would stop much of the illegal parking
4. I agree also that there needs to be much more of a cafe culture in the village and it is looking very scruffy.
5. Sort out the paving they need a really good clean.
6. Something must be able to be done about the types of businesses that are opening up in the village – NO to anymore charity shops and hairdressers and the likes of the pound bakery and yes to the more unique village style shops such as the delicatessen and the lovely ice cream shop.
7. Walk through west didsbury village to get a feel for the kind of boutique shops Cheadle should be aiming for.