The next Cheadle Area Committee will be held at Ladybridge Park Residents Club, Edenbridge Road, Cheadle Hulme starting at 6pm on Tuesday 22nd June 2010.  You can download the (unusually short at only 61 pages) agenda here. As always, the meeting is not only open to the public, but we really want more people to […]

Some good news.  I reported a while back that Parks and Recs had a cunning plan to get the money to repair the potholes on Gatley Hill (which isn’t a public highway so isn’t covered by normal pothole repairs to the roads). The idea was that the people who are repairing the bridge over Gatley […]

The swings have been removed at the Gatley Recreation Ground. Unfortunately, it seems they were getting regularly broken – I’m told at least in part by someone using them to train a pit bull (quite how that works, I don’t know). Every time the swings get broken, replacing them costs money so, for now, it’s […]

I’m back home after a couple of hours driving around Cheadle & Gatley to see how conditions are.  I made a point of visiting residential roads and spoke to quite a few people on the way. Summary All the main roads are clear and, with light traffic, perfectly fine to drive down.  That includes Gatley […]

Yesterday I went on a walkbout around Gatley (not the whole village – there’s only so much you can cover in 90 minutes!).  It was with our new Area Conditions Officer Julie Henshall and Richard Daniels, also from Environmental Services at Stockport Council – I’m grateful to both of them for coming out with me. […]

The ViaMichelin route planner site has an interesting feature: it allows you to plan your route, anywhere in Europe, by bike or on foot in addition to driving. I’ve been giving it a test drive, and it’s not bad – but far from perfect. In my testing, the cycle route planner directs you down smaller […]

Two “in-progress” issues we mentioned in our latest Keeping in Touch leaflet are now being sorted, both on Oak Road. At the junction with Stockport Road, the dip (which turns into a big puddle in wet weather – and I’ve almost forgotten there’s any other kind) is now fixed. The area of land between the […]

The Council is consulting on its walking and cycling strategies. You can access, and comment on, both here. The consultation runs to 14th December.  I’ve had a brief look through the cycling strategy and it seems pretty good, with an understanding that its about more than plastering the roads with cycle lanes. However, as always […]

Two Stockport parks are among the first in the country to be recognised as Accredited Country Parks by Natural England. Mersey Vale Nature Park and Reddish Vale Country Park are among the first four parks across the country to be given this accreditation from Natural England. In order to achieve accreditation, parks must meet a […]

It was good to see work being done tidying the plants and trees on Gatley’s old cemetary, next to the medical centre on Old Hall Road. I was glad the foliage growing across the pavement at the corner was cleared back, as I asked a little while ago. The signpost in the cemetary, which is […]