For the last decade the Brookfield Shiers Family Trust has been managed by the Council under the direction of councillors from the Cheadle Area Committee for the benefit of residents. The original bequest was £191,100. That investment has grown to £245,548, but is still a real-terms fall in value. The councillors have always taken the […]

Kevin Melling, from Stockport Council, and Cllr Dave White have been visiting every Local Area Committee meeting to get feedback from councillors on how Stockport can improve its response to freezing weather conditions as we saw for nearly a month from around 18th December. The Tories have been attacking the Council for not gritting more […]

Who checks that restaurants prepare food safely, take action against off-licences selling alcohol to children and act against shops using dodgy scales to con customers?  That would be the Council’s Environmental Health and Trading Standards section, who presented their annual report to our Cheadle Area Committee on Tuesday. You can read the report in full […]

The Cheadle Area Committee meets on Tuesday 1st December, 6pm at the Ladybridge Residents Club, Edenbridge Road, Cheadle Hulme. All welcome to come along. There’s one planning application up for consideration: DC043046, the erection of 5 no. three-storey mews houses at 176 Kingsway (this is on the Kingsway service road, South Park Road Estate). Other […]

Last night I tweeted from Full Council, to give anyone who’s interested a flavour of what was going on in the meeting.  Here are those tweets #stockportmbc Full Council Starting shortly. Lamb curry was nice. #stockportmbc Full Council Shouty mayoral entrance & prayer. #stockportmbc Full Council Mayor kindly welcomes me to the council. #stockportmbc Full […]

Tonight is Stockport’s Full Council meeting (there’s one roughly every 2-3 months, and this is the first I’ll have been to). I’m hoping to tweet from the meeting, so everyone can see what’s going on as it happens. The meeting starts at 6pm and will probably finish between 9 and 10pm.  To see my tweets […]

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 […]

Next Thursday, 26th November, is my first Full Council meeting since being elected, and the notes for the meeting – in the form of a bound 302-page book – dropped onto my doormat this afternoon. You can download it in PDF format here. I’m reliably informed that I don’t need to read most of it […]

Thanks to everyone at last night’s Cheadle Village Partnership.  We had an excellent discussion about Stockport’s Core Strategy (12 days to go to register your opinions wih the Council).  I was impressed that more than one person had made the heroic effort to read the strategy document, and people had some excellent questions and points. […]

At the Cheadle Area Committee meeting, Inspector Dave Turner reported good news on burglary.  Three arrests have been made of known burglars in the Cheadle and Gatley area, with the burglary rate dropping sharply as a result. Of the three, one has been convicted and is in prison.  One was convicted and given a non-custodial […]