PizzaExpress still has sights set on Alderley

It has got to be better than an empty shop and economic reality is that we arent going to get many offers of different use and/or independent shops. However planners do need to impose appropriate restrictions, eg hours/noise, in consideration of residents, especially those in Stevens Street.

Bring it on - much better than empty shops !

Whilst agreeing that the residents of Stevens Street need to be given consideration of some sort they must expect noise and the bustle of life when buying a home so near shops in a village location. PizzaExpress sounds great to me. We shall give them business.

Yes sounds great, they'll get my business too!

it will damage gusto but keep kids out of the rest of the bars I hope.

The staff, backed by the law, should be keeping the 'kids' out of the bars. If they are old enough to drink alcohol, they have as much right to be there as you do.

Here's hoping the planners see sense this time. As for kids in bars, surely totally irresponsible parking, sometimes just dangerous is more an issue. On my last visit to Gusto it wasn't the "kids" making the racket, it was adults. I haven't been back since.

I say, if Pizza Express, or anyone else, wants to invest in our village "bring it on!!" but tell us first, unlike Tesco!

Good luck to Pizza Exprees and thanks for investing in Alderley Edge. I hear they give free meals to local football 'player of the match' kids in Wilmslow and hope we can do the same for our Alderley Edge Hockey Club children. Like the partnering up with the community ideas.

Another restaurant?! Does anyone eat at home anymore!?

As a resident of Stevens Street, I am not opposed to the change of use of the building to accommodate a restaurant (at the moment it is solely for retail) but with that I would like some due consideration made to the fact we live within a stones throw and will be affected in many ways (traffic, noise, smells) as I'm absolutely sure you would too, if you lived here. That as yet has not happened, which is presumably why planning keeps failing. Of course we anticipated the hustle and bustle of village life, but I would like to point out that Alderley Edge is a village (and a fairly small one at that) not a town! We already feel the affects every weekend of anti social behaviour from the existing bars and restaurants (broken glass and sick on the street, woken up with screaming outside in the early hours on a regular basis, people parking over the drive because they can't find parking which means we can’t get our car off the drive in an emergency) and we don't complain, because we are tolerant people, who also enjoy the facilities to a point. But if we are expected to take a hit on our quality of life then we want it planning properly, keeping the impact to a minimum, particularly the increase in traffic. There are a considerable number of little children who live on the street (mine included) and those who back on to the street but use it for access. Drivers already race up and down the street (despite the fact it's one way) and I am very concerned that more traffic equals more danger. I think that's a reasonable position to take, don't you?