Very encouraged by people I’ve spoken to on Oakfield Avenue in Cheadle.  Parking’s a big problem there. I saw it with Mark Hunter and Pam King earlier this week, and I’ve paid two cisits since – on each time, seeing the cars parked at the top end of the road. The Council did come up [...]

Come along to Gatley Carrs on Sunday at 10.30am for a Conservative Group task day.  Even if you can just spare half an hour, your help will be valuable. Meet in the car park at the end of Brookside Road.

A good meeting of Gatley Scout Group’s committee last night.  The main issue we discussed was making better use of the Scout Hut as a community resource  – and making some money for Scout Group in the process. Expect to see an improved scout hut being hired out at sensible rates for parties, meetings etc. [...]

The police are starting police surgeries at the Cheadle Library, the first three are 29th July,  19th August and 2nd September.  The times for these dates are 6-9pm.

We noticed a few days ago that the light on the north side of Gatley’s clock tower (facing the Horse & Farrier) had  broken, so the light had fallen down and was obscuring the clock. We called it into the Council and, I’m pleased to say, it’s now been fixed – good job, guys.

Back from a moving funeral for Brian Millard at the Stockport Cemetary and Crematorium this afternoon. Several people have told me they’d like to pay their respects.  This was a fairly small funeral but I’m told there will be a memorial service later in the year

I thoroughly enjoyed Gatley Primary’s end of year concert last night.  Congratulations to everyone involved – the guitar, percussion, violin and brass groups. The choir just gets better and better – last night’s selection of traditional African songs had everyone singing along and just sounded great.

I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon with Pam King and Mark Hunter, walking around Gatley and Cheadle. I showed Mark the small lake that appears outside the Gatley Green Co-op whenever we have hard rain (it was meant to be sorted some time ago, we’re on the case).  We took a look at [...]

Our local Lib Dem MP, Mark Hunter, has exposed the shocking shortfall in central Government funding for our children in Stockport, compared to Manchester and London. Figures uncovered in a parliamentary question from Mr Hunter indicated that in 2009/10 while Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council only received £152,404 million from central Government through the dedicated schools [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I was helping at the last Beaver Scouts meeting yesterday and so didn’t make it to the Gatley partnership. However, you can see a report from the meeting at the excellent AboutMyArea site.