The boardwalk at Gatley Carrs, overlooking the pond, will shortly be replaced thanks to a grant from Forever Manchester and the Stockport Fund. The Gatley Carrs Conservation Group have worked hard to raise the money. The £2,982 grant will allow the Boardwalk to be replaced. Without the money, the old boardwalk would soon have had [...]

At Tuesday’s Area Committee, it was reported that incidents of fly-tipping have fallen. Across Cheadle, Gatley, Heald Green and the northern part of Cheadle Hulme there were 7 incidents over the last month, compared to 14 last November. This looks like good news. After the new recycling measures were introduced in Stockport last year, there [...]

The Lib Dem scheme to have people on Community Payback regularly visiting key locations around Cheadle and Gatley continues to work well. We worked with the Council, the Probation Service and local residents to identify places where people on Community Payback could visit not just once but on a regular basis a few times a [...]

Since the introduction of the extra wheelie bins about 15 months ago, Stockport residents have saved £5.2 million, with more to come. That’s big money and, tough as the Council cuts are, they would be a lot worse if our recycling was only as good as Manchester or Tameside. How do we get those numbers? [...]

Councillors have approved plans to enhance Gatley Green – full details of the proposals are here. The plans include blocking off the cut-through road. There has been some concern over the resurfacing of the road, and no decision has yet been made on what that will be. There are quite a few options and we’ll [...]

Stockport Council is encouraging interested parties to give their views on the proposed specification of green space maintenance. The Council is creating a new Public Realm Service which will commission a wide range of services including the maintenance of public green spaces. A draft contract document has been produced and the Council welcomes comments and [...]

Following pressure from the Lib Dems, the main path through Gatley Rec Ground will be properly repaired with work starting in the next few weeks. The tennis and basketball courts also need repairing, and the aim is to do those in the next financial year (2012/13). The Recreation Ground is a well-used, and well-loved local [...]

Last year there was a long consultation on what should be done to Cheadle Green, including stalls set up by the Green to get the views of shoppers and passers-by. The outcome was strong support for a plan to thin out the trees – removing some and cutting back others – to improve the overall [...]

Keith Holloway and Cllr Pam King at Ashfield Road, cleared by the Community Payback Lib Dem initiative The Community Payback people were in action yesterday, clearing the overgrown vegetation near Cheadle Library on Ashfield Road. This came from a local Lib Dem initiative which is seeing people on Community Payback working across Cheadle and Gatley [...]

Local neighbourhood police are to move out of the Cheadle Heath police station into the Cheadle police post, which has been closed for several years. The post will be staffed, but won’t have a public desk (residents will be able to make an appointment to see the police there). Local police are looking forward to [...]