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Stockport Council would like your views on plans for a new walking and cycling link between Romiley and Stockport.

As part of our Mayoral Challenge Fund programme, we have developed a new route between Romiley and Stockport town centre.

It is 4 miles long and goes all the way from the Cherry Tree estate in Romiley to the Town Centre. It runs along a combination of off-road paths and quiet roads avoiding busy main roads, but where it does encounter busy roads, it provides off-road cycle paths and signal-controlled crossings.

This scheme will form part of Greater Manchester’s Bee Network and we would like your views on it.

The proposals are co-ordinated with existing routes including the District Centre Improvement scheme on Stockport Rd/Compstall Road and a future Active Neighbourhood. Responses to those schemes have been analysed in the development of the proposals. The Traffic Regulation Orders for the District Centre scheme were recently advertised and the response will be presented to Area Committee in the coming months.

There are only four days remaining to have your say on the consultation into proposed improvements in Romiley!

Stockport Council, through the Mayor’s Cycling and Walking Challenge Fund (MCF), has applied for funding to improve Romiley Village Centre, in particular by reducing traffic speeds, improving cycle facilities and providing better crossing points of the main road and at side roads.

This Crossings Package proposal has considered the responses to the large-scale engagement exercise recently undertaken on Romiley Active Neighbourhood, and will complement any proposals that may be taken forward by such a scheme.

The Romiley Village Centre proposals include:

Stockport Council, through the Mayor’s Cycling and Walking Challenge Fund (MCF), has applied for funding to improve Romiley Village Centre, in particular by reducing traffic speeds, improving cycle facilities and providing better crossing points of the main road and at side roads.

This Crossings Package proposal has considered the responses to the large-scale engagement exercise recently undertaken on Romiley Active Neighbourhood, and will complement any proposals that may be taken forward by such a scheme.

The Romiley Village Centre proposals include:

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.”