The former Tatton Cinema has now completed its makeover, with the banner going up on Friday. This has been paid for by the owner of the site, not from taxpayers’ money! Whilst this is an improvement on how the site has looked recently, we want this to be short term only. We firmly believe that [...]

Paul Lawrence, who heads up Regeneration at Stockport Council, came to the Gatley Village Partnership on Tuesday. Although he didn’t have anything new to tell us about progress on the Tatton site, this seems like a good opportunity to say where we are. Everyone in the village wants something to happen to the Tatton site, [...]

Following the failure of the Tatton’s current owners to get their plans (for a convenience store and care home) approved, the site is up for sale. As before, the Lib Dem Council is working hard behind the scenes to get a positive outcome and I’ll report back when I’ve something firm to report.

We’ve received notification today that the planning inspector has rejected the developer’s appeal on Gatley’s Tatton cinema site. Last year, the Council rejected the application for a small supermarket and a care home on the site and the developer appealed against the decision. The inspector has decided that the appeal fails, and the Council’s decision [...]

I spent today in the appeal over the Tatton cinema site.  The developers were appealing against the Council’s rejection of plans for a small supermarket and a care home. The short report is that the Inspector heard both sides, had a site visit and will make his decision in around six weeks time. Now for [...]

I’ve heard this afternoon that the Informal Hearing into appeals will be held on Wednesday 10th March 2010 at the Town Hall, Edward Street, Stockport, SK1 3XE commencing at 10.00am. A Planning Inspector appointed by the First Secretary of State will determine the appeal. The two applications being appealed are: (DC041677) Partial demolition and reconstruction [...]

As we reported in our recent Keeping in Touch leaflet, the Tatton site developers have now launched a formal appeal. The proposal being appealed is to have a large convenience store in the cinema building, limited parking at the front and a care home at the rear.  This was rejected by councillors back in the [...]

I’ve nothing new to report on the Tatton beyond my last posting, but I wanted to say that it’s something all your councillors are working hard on right now and we’ll let you have more information as soon as there’s something firm.

Mornings like this I can live without! On the Council side, I’ve reported a faulty green light on the traffic lights by the newsagents on Gatley Road, been working on how to crack the parking issues on Oakfield Avenue in Cheadle, chased up the poor condition of the alleyway from Gatley Station past Brentwood Drive [...]

About three weeks ago we asked for your opinions on an idea to have a convenience store and car park on the old Tatton cinema site (instead of the convenience store and care home idea, rejected by the Council a few months ago). In total, we received 81 replies. 40 were in favour of the [...]