This week I signed off an updated Development Brief for the Tatton site – the next step in our campaign to get the site sorted. Last week we launched our campaign to CPO the Tatton. We’ve no objection at all to the current owners bringing forward a scheme, but more than a year after we […]

Amid concerns that the Barnes Hospital development plans had stalled – potentially endangering the historical building – the the Lib Dem team have been pressing to clarify the situation and make sure the owner’s duties to maintain the listed building are kept. We’ve now received a letter from the owners setting out their side. They […]

The Lib Dem team have launched a campaign to get the Tatton site developed, if necessary by using a Compulsory Purchase Order from the Council. “The Tatton site is an eyesore in the heart of Gatley and it has to be sorted,” said Cllr Iain Roberts. “Dickens Property Group, who own the site, have been […]

Here are the main decisions the local councillors took at last night’s Cheadle Area Committee. We gave £150 to Gatley Village Partnership to cover their costs for meeting hire and administration over the coming year. Planning application 54385 is for a private function room in the new Indian takeaway soon opening in the old Nat […]

The work to improve Cheadle Green is underway. The plans have been developed by the Cheadle Civic Society who have also raised the money for the work, and it has the support of the Liberal Democrats. Seeing the work starting, and trees being cut down, a number of people have got in touch expressing concern […]

The Barnes Hospital site is being offered for sale. The site, along with the planning permission to renovate the hospital building, convert it into apartments, and build more houses and apartments on the site is on the market. Having looked in detail at the planning permission, offering the best opportunity to save the former hospital […]

Conservatives at Cheshire East Council plan to sell greenbelt land they own near Handforth Dean to build a new development of around 1800 houses. As you drive south past the A555 into Cheshire and have Handforth Dean (with Tesco and M&S) on your right, the new development would be on your left, stretching over nearly […]

The Council has received a planning application to convert the dental technicians on the parade of shops at the bottom of Pendlebury Road, Gatley into a convenience store. The proposed opening hours are 7am to 9pm, seven days a week and apart from a shopfront sign there are no other changes proposed that would require […]

Councillors from Cheadle and Gatley, Cheadle Hulme North and Heald Green met yesterday to consider the planning application for the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road. Not a single Stockport resident came to oppose the application – the only opponent was someone from Poynton. After a debate in which Cllr Burns (Independent Ratepayers, Heald Green) […]

For some time we’ve been working to get the potholes around the former Tatton cinema repaired.  If they were on Council roads it would be simple and would have been done long ago, but the road in front of the Tatton is private and the road to the side is unadopted (as far as we […]