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 the most in need. That means some roads get repaired and others don’t – something I don’t have a solution for!

This list will change! It is the current plan for work to be done over the next three years, but individual projects will move between years for various reasons and I expect more to be added due to additional funding from the Government.

In Cheadle and Gatley, work currently planned (but not guaranteed) for this year, includes:

• £100,000 for improvements in Gatley village centre (this is for around Gatley Green)
• £60,000 for improvements in Cheadle village centre
• £70,000 to repair the pavements on High Grove Road

Additionally, we ward councillors have some money to spend on our wards – around £23,000 each year.  When you look at how much the repairs above are costing, you’ll see it doesn’t stretch that far.

Of course, the Council repairs specific problem pavements and potholes in addition to this, and sometimes additional pots of money can be found, but at the moment this is how much money we’ve got and this is how we’re planning to spend it.

Items that appear in the “reserve schemes” are currently planned for 2012/13 and 2014/15, though some of these may be moved forwards. You’ll see quite a few additional projects for Cheadle & Gatley in those, including Park Road, Gatley, Kingsway, South Park Road and Stockport Road.

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