News on Romiley Engagement

Chris Boardman, Greater Manchester’s Walking and Cycling commissioner, is urging residents in Romiley to have their say on whether they would like to see an Active Neighbourhood in their area.

For the past five and a half weeks, Stockport Council has been running an engagement exercise to see if residents would support an Active Neighbourhood in the Heatons and Romiley.

An Active Neighbourhood aims to enable residents to make short trips on foot or by cycle, instead of jumping in their car. Active Neighbourhoods also seek to make our roads safer for everyone as well.

The engagement exercise ends on October 23 but so far in Romiley, residents have made more than 2,100 contributions to the site, which includes people commenting or liking suggestions on the map.

Chris Boardman, Greater Manchester’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, said:

“Stockport Council is moving at pace with their plans to enable more people to walk, scoot, wheel and cycle everyday trips like going to the shops or going to school.

“Active Neighbourhoods are simply residential areas where people are prioritised over cars. By removing through access to cars, rat-running is stopped and streets can be transformed into areas where kids can play and ride scooters and bikes.

“These changes can be achieved in a number of ways and they don’t have to be big. Additional benches, some planters and tweaks to the road layout is often all that is needed.

“Everyone still has full access to their homes, it just ceases being a shortcut for those that are using your road to hurry somewhere else.”

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