Cheadle Area Committee is next Tuesday, 9th December 2014. It starts at 6pm at the Ladybridge Park Residents Club, Edenbridge Road, Cheadle Hulme and, as ever, all residents are welcome.
To be discussed at the meeting:
- Planning application 56291 – 50 seat stadium for Cheadle Heath Sports Club, Norbreck Avenue (note this is for Cheadle Heath, not Cheadle Town).
- Planning application 56810 – rear extension for 173 Stanley Road, Heald Green – coming to us because the house is in the green belt.
- Report on proposed polling stations for next year’s elections – the one change in our area is to move the AA polling station back to Trinity Church – it’s normally there but was in the library this year.
- Update on proposals for Poynton Relief Road
- Proposal to make Warren Avenue, Cheadle a residents parking zone Monday-Saturday 8am-6pm.
- Proposal to sell 0.6 acres of land at the end of Brookfield Road, Cheadle to the current tenant (apparently the land was bought in 1952 for a road scheme that was abandoned in 1976 – no idea what the road scheme was so if anyone knows, please do tell).
Iain, is the Poynton relief road, semmms or something else?
Good to see that Warren Ave is getting some parking support, next consideration ought to be Milton Crescent, the parking there makes the junction at the bottom quite dangerous.
SEMMMS is the South East Manchester Multi-Modal Study, which has a whole lot of things in it including a lot around public transport and cycling, much of which has already been done.
I believe the Poynton Relief Road was mentioned in the SEMMMS study, but it isn’t part of the A6 to Manchester Relief Road scheme which is one part of SEMMMS.
The Poynton Relief Road will connect into that scheme if it goes ahead.
I hope there is more to be done on the Cheadle green Christmas Tree, it currently looks a sorry site ???
In what way, Geoff?
Re the surplus land at the end of Brookfield Road, I have lived in Cheadle since November 1969. This new-item has jogged my memory. I seem to recall discussion about a proposal to build an East-West by-pass for Cheadle (if only!!! it is far more necessary than it was 45 years ago) As I recall, the proposal was to route traffic along Brookfield Road, across Wilmslow Road and along Broadway. Perhaps the cost of putting an underpass under Kingsway killed the idea. I think that traffic would have proceeded along Foxland Road, under the railway and along the edge of the Williams Scholes playing fields, then meeting Styal Road and allowing access to Wythenshawe via Hollyhedge Road. Just imagine – two population centres (Cheadle and Gatley) by-passed by means of a single road. There would have been impassioned opposition if the plans had proceeded further but in hindsight it would have avoided many traffic problems that now plague us. The roads affected were highly desirable as residential areas then, but have since become much less desirable because traffic congestion has become very much worse in recent years. One possibility at the time was to build the whole scheme as a bus route – nowadays people would probably consider a tram route to be worth considering.
It is significant that the decision to abandon the scheme dates from 1976, shortly after the boundary changes that joined Cheadle and Gatley to Stockport. Some of our more senior Councillors, e.g. Palul Porgess, might remember what was proposed at the time.
Perhaps, in view of our current congestion problems, it is important not to sell off the land at a knock down price. With current traffic problems, it would be very unfortunate if the land had to be repurchased within the next few years to solve our urgent congestion problems. Given the present Government’s attitude on public finance the only way to proceed at the moment would seem to be for this development to be a private toll road, though if we went down that route, this project should take place after a privately-financed underpass has been constructed at the A560-A34 junction.
Hi Stuart – there are no plans to start building new roads through swathes of residential Cheadle. Instead of that, we want to get trams to Cheadle and get more people cycling.
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