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 […]

I’ve received this from Andrew Stunell, Lib Dem MP in the neighbouring constituency of Hazel Grove The Government is set to cut nearly £800 from the budgets of some of Stockport’s poorest people in April, according to Hazel Grove MP Andrew Stunell. Government plans to alter the Local Housing Allowance could leave low-income families up […]

I’m running a series of posts to summarise over 400 pages of documents in way that helps those who live and work in Stockport Borough understand the issues we’re facing, the options we have and the Council proposals in how the Borough develops over the next 17 years. This is the third post.  You can […]

The Accessibility Appraisal Consultation Paper is part of Stockport Council’s Core Strategy – how the borough needs to develop over the next 15-20 years.  The document is being consulted on and you have until 25th November to give your opinions. This is my summary of that paper.  Since the full document is 82 pages, you […]

Most of the things I get involved with are pretty immediate.  Problems that need fixing as soon as possible, or at most issues like the Kingsway filter that might take a couple of years to sort out. So thinking about how I see Stockport developing up to 2026 requires a bit of a shift in […]