At Thursday’s Gatley Village Partnership, we had some discussion about parking on Stonepail Road. The Council have been looking at improvements and, at the request of the Partnership some months ago, have included it in a wider look at the village parking and traffic situation instead of taking it on its own. I’m hopeful we […]

Greater Manchester Police Authority is ‘performing adequately’, according to a new report released by the Audit Commission and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). On a scale from one to four, the joint inspection team assessed the Authority’s performance as ‘two’, which represents adequate performance. Inspectors found that Greater Manchester Police Authority has developed excellent […]

As part of the rolling programme of upgrades, two of the pelican crossings in Gatley will be replaced by puffins: the crossing by the Station and the one by the Tatton. In addition to being newer and smarter, puffin crossings have cameras mounted at the top of the lights that track pedestrians and traffic, ensuring […]

This nationwide scheme is supported by the Council as part of the Stockport Boost campaign, Home Access is a national project to supply low-income families with a laptop and access to the internet through a national application process. The aim of the programme is to support families by ensuring access to the educational and social […]

I recently reported that Manchester Urban Traffic Control (who manage the main junctions around Greater Manchester) had agreed to change the phasing of the lights at the Kingsway/Gatley Road junction. They’d been away and done a stack of computer modelling, looking at every permutation in changing the lights, putting in right filters and changes different […]

As reported in Craine’s business: BSkyB is to create 550 jobs with a new Sky call centre in Stockport. The 23,500 sq ft regional office in the St Peter’s Square development in the town centre will open in June. The centre will handle enquiries for pay television, broadband and telephony and recruitment is expected to […]

For some years, the idea of making part of Gatley’s Church Road one-way has been floating around.   It was looked at by the Council sometime around 2006 and, at the request of the Gatley Village Partnership and Traders’ Association, another look was taken. The findings were presented at the Gatley Village Partnership meeting last night. […]

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 […]

We had some good news from Inspector Stephen Gilbertson at the Gatley Village Partnership meeting last night. We’re going to get an extra PCSO and part of an extra PC in Gatley to beef up the team (which will then be a sergeant, 1.5 PCs and 2 PCSOs). The current neighbourhood officers for the Gatley […]