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 [...]

Solutions SK, a Stockport Council wholly owned company have scooped a much sought after national award, beating 50 other entries from across the UK. Solutions SK School Meals team won the National Overall Best Education Catering Team of the Year award at the Annual Network Performance Awards organised by the Association for Public Service Excellence. [...]

Last week I attended a workshop on how Stockport can play its part in tackling climate change.  The challenge is to reduce our carbon footprint (as the fairly innacurate jargon goes).  This one focussed on buildings, development and power generation, with transport being considered elsewhere.It was a workshop to get ideas and opinions so no [...]

Stockport Council opening times over Christmas and New Year are as follows: · Thursday 24th December – Open until 12 noon. · Friday 25th December – Closed. · Saturday 26th, Sunday 27th and Monday 28th December – Closed. · Tuesday 29th December – Open 8.30am to 5.00pm. · Wednesday 30th December – Open 8.30am to [...]

On Sunday 20th December Bramall Hall is hosting its annual Christmas Cracker event from 11.00am to 5.00pm. Experience Bramall Hall decked out for Christmas in this year’s Winter Wonderland theme. It will be a magical day with ‘cracking’ entertainment for people of all ages. Tickets for children (up to nine years old only) to see [...]

I posted the details for Christmas refuse collection last month, but as it’s almost upon us, here it is again and in more detail. Stockport residents whose recycling and refuse collection day falls on a Friday need to be aware of various changes over the festive period. On Friday 25th December 2009 and Friday 1st [...]

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg today visited Stepping Hill Hospital and then came to lunch at the Village Hotel in Cheadle.As the Stockport Express reports: Mr Clegg, himself a father of three young children, praised the way the new unit involved families, especially fathers, in the birthing process. He said: “This neonatal unit is cutting [...]

As we reported in our recent Keeping in Touch leaflet, the Tatton site developers have now launched a formal appeal. The proposal being appealed is to have a large convenience store in the cinema building, limited parking at the front and a care home at the rear.  This was rejected by councillors back in the [...]

Yesterday I went on a walkbout around Gatley (not the whole village – there’s only so much you can cover in 90 minutes!).  It was with our new Area Conditions Officer Julie Henshall and Richard Daniels, also from Environmental Services at Stockport Council – I’m grateful to both of them for coming out with me. [...]

Following last week’s public meeting about traffic issues on Schools Hill in Cheadle, I can report some early action. Council officers will be looking into the water issues at the bottom of Schools Hill: that’s the pooling near the junction with Wilmslow Road and the water that seems to run across from somewhere behind the [...]