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Area Schemes | Cycleway Schemes | Future Major Schemes | Local Safety Schemes | Major Maintenance Schemes | Safer Routes to School Schemes
To view current roadworks information for this district and the rest of Cheshire please use our Roadworks online mapping:
Area Schemes
john.gray@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973572
Additional Safer Routes to School
(including TAHITI (Tytherington and Hurdsfield Integrated Transport Initiative) and Cycle Routes)
This project is a collection of initiatives designed to improve transport choice within the north Macclesfield area. It is focused on school and employment journeys and has a very broad partnership supporting it. Some measures have been implemented in the area as a part of the Macclesfield Package, but these works, now to be extended, have identified new partners through the Safer Routes to Schools project and local employers seeking to implement Green Travel Plans. The project aims to develop walking and cycle routes in the area, improve road safety and provide better bus services.
Bank Square and Pownall Park, Wilmslow
- Bank Square - Installation of pedestrian crossing points, a new Zebra crossing and pedestrian refuges. Includes improved bus waiting facilities in Green Lane.
- Pownall Park - Measures include speed cushions, road humps and raised junctions - the purpose of these is to reduce the level of 'rat running' through the area.
Handforth Town Centre Improvements
This project involves a collection of traffic management measures to provide facilities for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. The scheme will reduce road space to reduce the speed of vehicles through the town centre. It will also environmentally enhance the town centre. There will be an unmanned display at Handforth library until the end of July for those wishing to view the proposals.
Handforth Highway and Environmental Improvement Scheme leaflet
A537 Route Treatment Scheme
This scheme includes the improvement of the carriageway, signs and markings. There will be an investigation into speed restrictions, which will hopefully lead to the use of gateway treatments and speed cameras.
West Wilmslow Cycle Routes
This will improve pedestrian, cycling and public transport access to tackle school and work journeys through a co-ordinating group involving education, businesses, Local Authority and Groundwork.
neil.edgar@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973619
Since 1991/92 the annual Local Transport Plan allocation has included a block of resources specifically targeted at improving the safety of the highway network. Since then around £7,000,000 has been spent on Local Safety Schemes in the area now administered by the County Council. The schemes implemented have resulted in an accident reduction of almost 50% at the sites treated.
Safety Cameras Homepage
janet.mills@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973730
Macclesfield
The upgrade of the flower pot link between Chester Road and All Hallows High School will create a safer walking and cycling route for students.
Safer Routes to Schools Homepage
anna.geroni@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973617
Macclesfield Town Centre Works
Approximately £50k of the total budget will be allocated to a joint scheme with Macclesfield Borough Council and British Waterways. This scheme will improve access to the canal and provide a suitable link from the Black Lane/Buxton Road area to the local Primary school and to link into the Middlewood Way giving access to Tytherington High School.
Cycling Homepage
Bridges - john.violet@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973690
Roads - tim.pemberton@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973938
Bridge Assessment
The ongoing bridge assessment programme will finally be completed in the coming year when outstanding work on Network Rail’s bridges will be finished.
Other Bridge Strengthening Schemes
In addition, the costs of dealing with the interim measures required on weak bridges (i.e. temporary traffic management measures), catering for urgent unplanned work, and advanced design will also be found from this block.
Bridge Structural Maintenance
It is anticipated that this will allow for the urgent and unplanned structural repairs to the County Council’s bridge stock of over 800 structures, including those recently inherited following detrunking.
A537 Hibel Road, Macclesfield
Being on a principal road, the strengthening of this Network Rail Bridge is a priority for both the County Council and the Department for Transport with its support through the Local Transport Plan. Network Rail, who will be procuring the works, have yet to carry out a feasibility study and therefore the programming and costs are not yet known.
Please contact john.violet@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973690 for information on bridges
A56 Lymm Road, Little Bollington (Reddy Lane easterly for 800m)
This scheme involves carriageway reconstruction.
A535 Ryleys Lane, Alderley Edge (Brook to Eaton Drive)
This scheme involves resurfacing and localised reconstruction of the carriageway.
A537 Buxton New Road, Macclesfield Forest (Cat and Fiddle)
This scheme involves carriageway resurfacing and provision of edge support.
Please contact tim.pemberton@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973938 for information on roads
john.gray@cheshire.gov.uk Tel: 01244 973572
A34 Alderley Edge and Nether Alderley Bypass
SEMMMS New Relief Road Scheme
The South East Manchester Multi Modal Study (SEMMMS) includes Stockport North - South and Poynton Bypasses and the Manchester Airport Link Road West. This is a joint project with Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Manchester City Council and Cheshire County Council. |