Issue - meetings

To consider a joint report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration and the Deputy Chief Executive

The Area Committee is requested to consider whether to agree to a highway creation on a section of Footpath 8(a) and 9(b) Cheadle and Gatley, that runs from the intersection with Footpath 8(a) Cheadle and Gatley and Gatley Road to the intersection of Footpath 9(b) Cheadle and Gatley and Brentwood Drive, as shown on the plan attached to the report.

The Area Committee is requested to approve the making of a bridleway creation order in respect of the section of the routes shown between points A-B on the plan attached to the report.

Officer Contact: Ernest Nama/Jackie Connelly on 0161 474 4595/3134 or email: ernest.nama@stockport.gov.uk/jackie.connelly@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Democratic Services Manager submitted a joint report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration and Deputy Chief Executive (copies of which had been circulated) requesting the Area Committee to consider making a bridleway creation order on a section of Footpath 8(a) and 9(b) Cheadle and Gatley that runs from the intersection with Footpath 8(a) Cheadle and Gatley and Gatley Road to the intersection of Footpath (b) Cheadle and Gatley and Brentwood Drive.

The Area Committee was advised that funding for the surface improvement works had been secured through a Department for Transport Cycle City Ambition Grant. The proposed bridleway upgrade was tied in with other Gatley Railway Station links works on Gatley Road and Foxland Road, Cheadle which were currently underway. The proposals woud enhance and better connect vehicular traffic free routes between communities in the vicinity of Gatley Railway Station.

RESOLVED – That the making of a bridleway creation order in respect of the following section of the route between points A-B, as shown on drawing number 0066_Gatley Station attached to the report, be approved :-

Commencing at Point A (a point 0.5 metre from the curb on the adopted highway at Gatley Road at point A), and continuing generally north easterly for a distance of 87.7 metres where Footpath 8(a) Cheadle & Gatley intersects with Footpath 9(a) Cheadle & Gatley, and continuing in a south easterly direction for a distance of 34.9 metres at Point B (a point where Brentwood Drive intersects with Footpath 9(b) Cheadle & Gatley.