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by Lib Dem team on 26 May, 2012
We’ve written before about our plans for real improvements to the centre of Cheadle village – several hundred thousand pounds to enhance the village. This money is a follow-on from improvements to Gatley – repaving Church Road and improvements to Gatley Green.
Our first job is to find out what the problems are that we want to solve are, which means consulting residents, businesses and visitors to Cheadle.
We want to make sure we do it properly – there’s no point rushing it and ending up making bad decisions. So the current plan is to kick off the consultation after the summer holidays, in September, to identify the issues and problems everyone sees. We’ve got our own ideas, of course, but we want to start off by understanding what everyone else thinks.
We’ve one challenge before that can happen: the consultation costs and there’s some money put aside for it in the Council’s Transportation Capital programme for 2012-13. That programme’s been approved by the Lib Dems, but Labour councillors have called it in so I’ll be at a meeting with other councillors next week to go through the programme and hopefully get agreement.
6 Comments
In considering improvements/enhancements to Cheadle village can consideration be given to returning the ‘Ockleston Fountain’ back to Cheadle Green. After all it is the year of the Queen’s Jubilee and at it’s present site this beautiful monument is hidden away.
Hi Geoff,
I think this was looked at in detail last year as part of the Cheadle Green improvements, and unfortunately the cost of moving it was found to be prohibitively high, but we can check that out.
Ian
Appreciate your comments and look forward to your update on this subject. I would think if you took a straw poll you would get a very high YES vote !! but then where it currently resides (hidden) some people might not know about it.
Geoff
I think it’s ridiculous that huge lorries have to negotiate the two way traffic road at the side of Boots to get to Travis Perkins building yard.. There are often cars parked down the side, and the lorries end up waiting to get negotiate the access, holding traffic up on the High Street in the meantime.
Can’t it be one way? Traffic can get out by the Church which is now one way.
Couldn’t agree more with Estelle’s comments. I have already made the same point and it is cheap to implement.
Vis-a-vis street parking, why was this made into residents only along Massie Street. It is now empty for most of the day.
whatever plans/proposals are considered, encouraging easy parking is a must. i was in the centre of Stockport yesterday to do a pre-inspection on a building that i am to survey. what has happened? it used to be a busy bustling centre – its almost a ghost town. please don’t mess up cheadle!