From Stockport Homes: Stockport Homes has a Community Fund enabling customers to access money to help improve neighbourhoods where Stockport Homes manages properties. This fund will support projects that make a real difference to the lives of our customers and the wider community. The list of what the Community Fund is available for is endless [...]

Pam and I dropped by the latest meeting of the Chestnut, Acorn and Ash residents’ association – covering those avenues in Cheadle. The association’s gone from strength to strength thanks to the work of the committee and support of residents. This evening, plans were launched for a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the area – something [...]

From Stockport Council: Stockport Council is soon to complete the sale of the former Peaches Nightclub site on Wellington Street, Stockport town centre, to “Johnnie” Johnson Housing Trust (JJHT). The £6 million scheme is supported by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), Heritage Lottery Fund and the Council. It includes the redevelopment of the site [...]

I got very excited yesterday morning – a tweet from the Stockport Express said house prices in the borough were up 47% in just a year.  When I thought about it for a moment, that did seem a little unlikely, and the Express later corrected the story (so good for them) to say that house [...]

From the Council: Some months ago the AGMA local authorities jointly agreed with the Homes & Communities Agency a £30M programme of new housing across Greater Manchester. While the Government reviewed the capital programme the allocation of this funding was put on hold. This week, despite the reduction in the overall Homes and Communities Agency [...]

From the Council: Stockport Homes have been nominated for two NFA (National Federation of ALMOS) awards. To see why, visit http://www.almos.org.uk/awards.php and then click on the Stockport Homes videos. For further information please email cheryl.harrison@stockporthomes.org

Last week I attended a workshop on how Stockport can play its part in tackling climate change.  The challenge is to reduce our carbon footprint (as the fairly innacurate jargon goes).  This one focussed on buildings, development and power generation, with transport being considered elsewhere.It was a workshop to get ideas and opinions so no [...]

The House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee, which is tasked by the House of Commons to scrutinise the Department for Communities and Local Government, is conducting an inquiry into the Government’s Decent Homes Programme.  As part of that inquiry, the Committee are visiting Stockport on Monday 23 November 2009 to find out more [...]

Some small improvements coming to Oak Road in Cheadle: A few days ago I reported the dip at the corner of Oak Road and Stockport Road, and it’s now marked up for repair. For a while, residents on Oak Road by Oak Court have been asking for a higher fence to improve the privacy and [...]

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg today challenged Gordon Brown at Prime Minister’s Questions on planned cuts to Housing Benefit. Current Government plans are to scrap excess payments to local housing allowance claimants where their rent is lower than the rate of the allowance. This would see some of the poorest families in the country up [...]