Next Tuesday’s Area Committee have a couple of planning applications which have produced more comment than most, so to make sure that everyone can attend who wants to, we will be holding the meeting at Kingsway School (Foxland Road campus) from 6pm on Tuesday 26th September 2017. As ever, all are welcome to the public meeting. It will also be webcast, with the video uploaded the following day.
On the agenda:
- Refresh of the SEMMM strategy. This is the strategy for all forms of transport: road, rail, tram, bike, walking, bus, freight etc. across South East Manchester, being consulted on over the coming weeks. It’s important: no-one knows right now how we will deal with all the extra traffic created by thousands of new houses and we need an answer.
- Gatley Scouts are applying for money to by a defibulator.
- Planning application 64779 to build a new mosque and community centre on the existing site, and add to the current onsite car parking.
- Planning application 66326 to build a new primary and secondary school, and everything that goes with them, alongside Cheadle College on the existing college site on Cheadle Road, Cheadle.
- Proposal for new bridleway/cyclepath along the line of the existing footpath from Demmings Road, Cheadle to Bramall Hall.
- Report on Anti-social behaviour at Cheadle Mill, requested by Iain
- Proposal for double yellow lines on Church Road, Gatley at the entrance to the Tesco car park.
All the reports can be seen here.
Safety must come first, but people want to use the shops & if all you ever do is keep adding yellow lines all over the village, people will just go to Cheadle instead. I just wish there was as much effort put in to creating parking as there is to stop it. The lack of parking in Gatley is the very reason why the independent shops can’t survive here & all we’re left with is hairdressers & takeaways. Such a shame.
I walked down one side of Gatley and then the other side whilst walking my dog and saw very few people in the shops but yet hardly any parking spaces. This made me come to the conclusion that the park cars were those of the owners or staff to the shops, can’t expect customers when parking spaces are taken by yourselves as shop owners etc. Parking not just for the Council to sort out.
Where else do you expect them to park then Arthur?Especially when there are so few parking spaces to begin with.
I see yellow lines increasingly used around Cheadle. This method of control really only moves the problem elsewhere, as has been stated in area committee meetings when discussion took place on Resident Only Parking applications.
It would seem that this argument applies only in certain matters, rather than across the board.
Where is the overall strategy for parking…..I see signs of little joined up thinking…..
Evolution is going to accelerate massively to give new generations wheels to replace the feet on the end of their legs! So many now drive to shops that they used to walk to (and struggle with weight gain). I walk regularly but in many routes the encouragement of car & cycle use obstructs (& endangers) road crossing and downgrades pavements and pathways. Roads must be for wheels & pavements for feet/pushed prams/wheelchairs (at walking speed) only.