Stockport Council will be repairing all faulty streetlights in Orchard and Rosewood Gardens shortly. The problem has arisen because the roads are not adopted by the Council – they are still in the ownership of the developer who therefore has responsibility for fixing these sorts of problems. Since the Lib Dem team intervened, Council officers [...]

The Lib Dem team have been out and about and we’ve reported a few faulty streetlights and potholes including: potholes on Appleby Road, Gainford Avenue, Buttermere Road and Grasmere Road in Gatley streetlight outside 47 Gatley Road, Cheadle streetlight on Gatley Road by railway bridge, Gatley streetlight on Pendlebury Road, opposite the entrance to Hyldavale [...]

Faulty streetlights can be reported at any time, of course, but as the nights start to draw in we want to make sure our roads are well lit before autumn arrives so please keep a look out if you’re out and about after dark. The best way to report a streetlight is to make a [...]

The document below shows the money Stockport Council is spending on its capital transport programme in 2011/12. That’s things like big pavement and road resurfacing. Stockport, like every council, doesn’t have nearly enough money to repair everything we’d like. Council officers look across the Borough each year and allocate money to what they see as [...]

I don’t know what it is about Broadway – the streetlights seem to break more often than elsewhere.  Just chance, probably. Coming back from Cheadle Village Partnership yesterday I spotted lights 19, 24 and 26 on Broadway aren’t working. I also reported a pothole at the junction of Barcheston Road and Broadway, and one of [...]

For the best part of a year a resident of Hawthorn Road, Gatley has been asking for a sign near the Gatley Green Co-op to be replaced.  It’s obviously taken a bash at some time and was bent. Pam and I have been chasing this up, and now it’s been replaced.  I saw yesterday that [...]

As the evenings draw in, now is the time to report faulty streetlights to the Council.  Most are fixed within a few days of being reported.  Some take longer (especially if the problem is with the electricity supply and Electricity North West (ENW) have to get involved). Most light columns have a number on them.  [...]

Before last night’s Gatley Village Partnership, I popped over to Belmont Road to check the lamps on the Belmont side of the railway bridge, where the path runs across to South Park Road. One had failed well before Christmas, then a second went.  I’d asked the Council to fix them but obviously something went wrong, [...]

I was very glad to see that the no-entry signs at the north end of Old Hall Road, Gatley (around the triangle) are now lit again, after several months.  I’d been told there was a technical issue being investigated, so it seems it’s been solved. I’m aware of a number of other signs that should [...]

I’m yet again chasing up getting the lamps fixed on the path from Belmont Road to South Park Road, in Gatley.  Now two are broken, throwing half the path into pitch darkness. I’ve also reported a few faulty streetlights on Styal Road.  Three of these (between West Drive and South Drive) are actually in the [...]