Councillors Craig Browne and Mike Taylorson met with Cheshire East Highways last week to discuss a number of changes aimed at increasing road safety and alleviating parking problems and issues around the village.
A number of schemes are going to be introduced which will start imminently but take up to two years to complete.
Councillor Craig Browne commented "The proposed scheme for Ryleys Lane, Eaton Drive etc is part of a package of measures that we want to introduce to try and make roads safer across the village.
"The measures will take time to be introduced and will not happen all at once, we are probably looking at 18 months to 2 years to get all of them implemented. By that time, we also hope to have made real progress in terms of our long term car park strategy as well."
As reported last week, Cheshire East Council is proposing to ban parking on sections of Grasmere Road, Windermere Drive, Redesmere Drive, Ryleys Lane, Eaton Drive, Meadow Brow, Sutton Lane and Wilton Crescent. They also intend to ban parking from 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday on sections of Church Lane and Ryleys Lane.
Additionally the scheme includes the following changes:
Talbot Road - Introduction of double yellow lines and a "no waiting" area directly opposite the new Medical Centre. New 30-minute parking bays to be introduced along the west-side of Talbot Road, to accommodate short-stay visits to GP.
Stamford Road - Extension of existing H-Bars outside residential properties.
Chapel Street - Two disabled bays on the right hand side to be moved to the left hand side. Double yellow lines to be introduced on the right hand side.
London Road - Removal of double yellow lines opposite Chapel Street (in front of Gusto), creating some additional parking spaces in the village centre. All markings outside bus stops to be refreshed.
South Street and West Street - Existing single yellow lines parallel to South Street Car Park to be removed and replaced with 2-hour parking bays, creating up to 8 additional short-stay parking spaces in the village centre. Dropped kerbs to be introduced at the junction of South Street & West Street.
Macclesfield Road - Refreshing of all the markings at the junction with Congleton Road, Chapel Road and London Road.
Ryleys Lane - Introduction of a zebra crossing to the west of Eaton Drive, which will facilitate children crossing from Windermere Drive/Redesmere Drive on their way to school, as well as acting as a traffic calming measure on Ryleys Lane, where vehicle speeds of up to 80mph have been recorded.
Greystoke Drive - Introduction of additional double yellow lines and parking bays, the latter with a 2-hour waiting limit and no return within 2 hours.
Trafford Road, (top section from Chapel Road to Macclesfield Road) - introduction of double yellow lines on the left hand side going uphill and removal of a small number of parking bays coming downhill. This is to prevent vehicles coming downhill being forced onto the wrong side of the road on the blind bend section.
Of the above schemes, Trafford Road and Greystoke Drive will go out to consultation very shortly and more information will be provided on the other schemes, including detailed plans, as and when they are due to go to consultation.
Cllr Craig Browne added "We also had a meeting with the Cheshire East Cabinet member Les Gilbert on the 4th of September and he has indicated that he is prepared to support changes to the regime on South Street car park once there is a full proposal from the Parish Council so we will being that to the October Parish Council meeting."
Additionally Cheshire East have given permission for the creation and adoption of new flower beds in the park, initially around the bowling green, by the Allotments Society, local friends groups, businesses and possibly schools.
Craig commented "Organisations will be allowed to display a small plaque to indicate that they are responsible for each flower bed. Any other interested groups are encouraged to contact me."
Additionally in the coming months the bed in front of the old bandstand will be cleared and replaced with a picnic area and steel benches.
Alderley Edge Parish Council is currently undertaking a parking review in the village, an article regarding this project will be published on alderleyedge.com tomorrow.
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It's completely unrealistic to put a 30 min time on those spaces!
One of the smart things they could do, if it is light controlled, is to link it to a speed sensor so that if a car speeds towards it in excess of the speed limit - it turns red.
Such lights are used in France but not here in the UK. I nearly got Rob Cramer to the stage where he would seek special permission to install such a light as an experiment, this looks like another opportunity.
I got the existing Puffin crossing at the top of Church Lane installed by getting the traffic flow criteria changed, it sometimes takes a bit of thinking outside the box to come up with a good solution.
Perhaps Craig Browne could raise this with the officers ?
Actually flower is the wrong word as this bed is conifer plus a donated beech sapling.
If it is deemed that more picnic areas are needed, why not either use some of the flat, green, boring grass area OR why not put the tables/benches actually in the old band-stand; at least that would keep the rain off the tables and as the bandstand is higher than the surrounding grassed areas, children could be watched more easily?
Has C.E./'ansa' been talked into paying for it?
There is plenty of grassed land on the other side of the bandstand that could be used as a picnic area.
And it would be good to see the bandstand brought back to life - it is sad to see it empty and enclosed by grey railings.
Pop-up Cafe anyone?
thanks for ther prompt reply.
I still think that it would be a mistake to sacrifice the rather nice bed when there is so much grassed area available.
Have you been able to canvass the other users of the park to see if they wish the bed to be lost?
I note that there are plans for the bandstand; could you please share those plans with the rest of us?
As to improving the bowling green; what might that involve please?
Have you sweet-talked CE into paying for all this? Or have you cunningly found some grant monies? or is the P.C. to meet the costs?