Regular readers will know that I’ve put a fair amount of time into sorting out the flooding/pooling issues around Cheadle & Gatley since my election in September.  I think it’s going pretty well. Over the last few months, several serious and, in some cases, longstanding problems have been fixed including Gatley Green, Longley Lane, Styal [...]

Staircase House is launching its ‘Time For Bed’ season in March to celebrate the work of a local group of embroiders. Staircase Stitchers will be showcasing their work from the past five years designing and creating six replica 17th century bed-hangings for the historic bedroom in the house. The special event to display the textile [...]

You might remember me reporting that one stretch of Cheadle High Street – immediately to the east of Massie Street on the southern side – didn’t have an enforceable parking restriction. It seems that the pole and plate with the details of the parking rules had been removed some time ago, presumably as part of [...]

Stockport Council took part in a major operation to crack down on illegal activity in Reddish and Brinnington last week. The Council’s Licensing and Trading Standards teams joined forces with Greater Manchester Police and HM Customs & Excise in ‘Operation Mistral’. Activities carried out during the operation included: Underage test purchasing which resulted in one [...]

I’ve been sent this flyer detailing Network Rail’s plans for the Stockport area over the next decade or two.  I haven’t looked into this in any detail so, for now, I pass it on without comment (but, as always, invite yours).

This is the information I’ve been passed by Gareth Davies at the Council. The approach Gareth suggests sounds sensible to me. “The swings at the park have been the subject of sustained vandalism for a period of several months – it appears that the owner (or owners) of Staffordshire Terrier type dogs have been allowing [...]

Yesterday evening I attended my first Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Committee at Stockport Council.  This is the committee, made up of councillors of all parties plus a non-councillor rep, which looks at what the Children and Young People’s Directorate are doing and, hopefully, makes useful suggestions. We saw an excellent example yesterday of how [...]

The ten local authorities in Greater Manchester have a decision to make over the next few weeks: whether to go ahead and form a new “City Region” – a body which would see the ten authorities working together to deliver transport (as now), post-16 education funding, skills & training funding and inward investment. In Stockport [...]

This is from Chris Davies’ regular email about what’s going on in Brussels and the European Union.   LIB DEM NOTES FROM BRUSSELS 12 February 2010  The EU is looking pretty chaotic and ramshackle at the moment, but I am writing this having just come from an exciting exchange and historic vote in the European [...]

On Thursday night Manchester Evening News held a Question Time-style debate with Tony Lloyd (Labour, Manchester Central), Graham Brady (Conservative, Altrincham and Sale West) and Mark Hunter (Lib Dem, Cheadle). You can view a report of the event (via Twitter feed) at the MEN site.