From the Council: Water mains improvements affecting roads in Bramhall village centre will be carried out during the school summer holiday. Stockport Council has worked closely with United Utilities (UU) to schedule the work during the holiday period when there is less traffic, and to minimise the impact on local businesses and motorists. Warning signs [...]

I’ve received a report of a bogus caller who tried (unsuccessfully, I’m glad to say) to con his way into a house in Cheadle Hulme, pretending to be from Scottish Power. Just a reminder to be on the look-out for bogus callers.  The advice is: • When answering their door remind people to always use [...]

We’ll be getting a new pedestrian crossing outside Gatley Station sometime in the next year. The old crossing over Gatley Road will be replaced with a Puffin Crossing. Although the details are yet to be finalised, we’re hoping to get, at the request of Pam King, improved lighting under the railway bridge. Other planned safety [...]

Cheadle village is set, we hope, for shorter queues as an upgraded “Scoot system” is implemented sometime in the next year.  This uses a computer to link together the three sets of lights along Cheadle High Street (the junction with Wilmslow Road, the pedestrian crossing and the junction with Manchester Road and Stockport Road). The [...]

Remember those “what I did in my holidays” pieces you were coerced into writing at primary school? Well, this is along those lines, only it’s my day going off to see the Queen at one of this year’s Royal Garden Parties. If that sounds tedious, you may want to leave now – there are no [...]

I’ve been talking to various bits of the Co-op for a while about getting a permanent ramp for the Gatley Green branch. The other Gatley Co-op has an external ramp, but at the Gatley Green one the pavement simply isn’t wide enough.  Instead, they have a removable ramp which staff will put down for you [...]

The Stockport Express has the news that Stockport’s Westgate Department Store is to close later this year, with a Primark store opening up on the site at 9am on 6th September 2011. Although  a little sad, I can’t say I’m totally surprised.  The store’s been looking fairly tired for a while now, and the current [...]

Pam King and I have been working for some time to improve the condition of the alleyway running from Gatley station past Brentwood Drive down to Gatley Road. First we had fence panels leaning out dangerously – which the Council quickly removed when we let them know (the panels aren’t owned by the Council). Since [...]

These NOTES concern a single issue, one that you have probably never heard of – the proposed new EU regulation on reducing CO2 emissions from light commercial vehicles (vans). It’s a matter with which I am closely involved, and it highlights just how difficult it is to get governments to match their visionary words about [...]

The year of Margaret Thatcher’s final general election victory and the Liberal/SDP Alliance continued to gain ground on Stockport Council. Colin Macalister got an impressive 73.8% of the vote in Brinnington, my Conservative namesake Ian Roberts won in Cheadle and the Alliance march across the Hazel Grove seats continued. 07/05/87 1987 Stockport Bredbury (11198) @ [...]