What better way to spend the Saturday evening before Christmas than driving around Cheadle and Gatley spotting faulty lights?
OK, I didn’t spend more than an hour before deciding a warm house was definitely preferable, but I picked up a few issues that I’ve passed onto the Council.
1. Christmas lights in Cheadle & Gatley
- The star outside Barclays Bank, Church Road in Gatley is still not working
- On Gatley Road, Cheadle the Christmas light outside Meadows Cycle Shop is not working.
- At the junction of Wilsmlow Rd and the High Street, the Christmas light outside the White Hart is not working
- On High Street, Cheadle the Christmas light outside Thomsons isn’t working
- On High Street, Cheadle the Christmas light outside the Royal Bank of Scotland isn’t working
- At the corner of Stockport Road and Manchester Road in Cheadle, the Christmas light isn’t working.
2. Streetlights in Cheadle
- Lamp 14 on Ashfield Road (south end) at the corner of Whitegates Road not working
- On the Massie Street (East) car park,Cheadle, the lamp nearest to M.J. Scott (in the north west corner of the car park) isn’t working.
- Lamp 29 outside 68 Wilmslow Road, Cheadle isn’t working
- Lamp 22 outside 56 Wilmslow Road, Cheadle isn’t working
- Lamp 5 opposite 3 Broadway, Cheadle isn’t working
- Lamp 6 outside 3 Broadway, Cheadle isn’t working
- Lamp 9 outside 17 Broadway, Cheadle isn’t working
- Lamp 13 outside 31 Broadway, Cheadle, isn’t working
- The lamp outside Costa Coffee, High Street, Cheadle isn’t working (though the Christmas lights on the same post are)
- The lamp outside Cheadle Library, Ashfield Road, in the centre of the parking bays, isn’t working.
3. Illuminated streetsigns in Cheadle and Gatley
- At the junction of Milton Crescent and Gatley Road, Cheadle there are four illuminated speed signs. Three are not lit.
- At the north end of Old Hall Street, Gatley, by the grass triangle there are four no entry signs, none of which are lit.

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