From Manchester Airport: The Highways Agency and their appointed contractors are continuing work to replace the Thorley Lane Bridge over the M56, situated between junctions 5&6. To enable the successful completion of the works a full closure of the M56 between Junctions 5 and 6 in both directions is planned from 22:00 on Friday 27 […]

From the Council: We will shortly be commencing highway drainage repairs and improvements on Cheadle Road, Cheadle between St Andrew’s Church and Cheadle & Marple Sixth Form College. This work is due to start week commencing Monday the 16th February and will be carried out by our Alliance Partners George Cox & Sons Ltd. The […]

Stockport Council has received a green light from the Secretary of State for Transport to build the long-awaited A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road, and construction could start in earnest as early as March 2015. The new road has long been a key campaign for local MP Mark Hunter. Stockport Council yesterday received notification from […]

Substantial maintenance and repair work on the retaining walls on Kingsway at the Cheadle Royal junction will be done next month. The work starts on February 14th and is estimated to take ten days. The crews will work every day, including weekends, and the aim is to do as much as possible over half term. […]

Local MP Mark Hunter and Lib Dem Council candidate Graham Greenhalgh have organised a public meeting for you to have your say on the Kingsway junction to the agencies that control it, and everyone is invited. The Kingsway junction’s one of the busiest in Greater Manchester and the Lib Dem team have worked to improve […]

The Council’s arboriculture team are currently working to identify and remove dead or dangerous trees across Cheadle and Gatley. In the last few days two dead trees on Belmont Road and three on Springfield Road have been felled. In all cases, the aim is to replant with a new tree in the next planting season […]

Following concerns from residents about crossing the road at the junction of Stonepail Road and Church Road in Gatley, the Lib Dem team has asked the Council to consult on putting double yellow lines around the junction. It’s a difficult location for further works: Church Road is too narrow at that point for a traffic […]

As regular readers will know, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) now manage the Kingsway/Gatley Road junction. The Lib Dem team have long campaigned for improvements to the junction and we’ve had a number of successes from the Gatley left-filter lane a few years ago to the lane realignment and most recently the moving of the […]

While others just talk about road repairs, the Lib Dems are delivering: our £100 million roads repair programme is already underway with hundreds of roads across Stockport being properly resurfaced over the next year. But after decades of governments underfunding our roads, the announcement of a guaranteed five year funding agreement from the Coalition to […]

Residents asked the Lib Dem team to get a Keep Clear box painted at the junction of Church Road and Gatley Road in Gatley so we were very pleased to see this week that the lines have been painted. The new Keep Clear markings will help people turning out from Church Road to get onto […]