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A6 to Bredbury Road – The Process Continues
by jontwigge on 5 January, 2018
After one of the longest debates in recent Stockport Council history the process possibly leading to building the new road from the A6 just south of Hazel Grove across to Bredbury and the M60 still continues.
The Road is the Second Phase of a Road from the Airport to Bredbury
The debate was only to put a recommendation to the the Council Cabinet later in December (19th) and voted strongly to recommend continuing the process. In a much closer run vote Cabinet decided to rubber stamp that recommendation and the Council will now bid for money to do a full business case study.
It has to be stressed, this is absolutely not a decision to build the road, it is still a very long way from that but the process has not been stopped yet.
In the full council meeting many councillors with a variety of views on the road were saying that they want more information and that is why they want the process to continue (including some councillors who want the information to finally, once and for all, to reject the road after decades of discussion). This vote was only a recommendation to the cabinet not a decision.
The Labour Cabinet then met on the 19th december and decided by a vote of 5-3 to continue the process.
The next stage is for the council to bid for government money to do a full business case for the road – approximate half a million pounds. If the business case was started it would include a full environmental study as well as a full business case study and a full public consultation. Only after the full business case was complete, if the bid was successful, would council then vote on whether to bid for the actual project money to build it – a much larger amount of money of hundreds of millions of pounds.
There are still a number of times that the new road might be rejected in the coming process.
4 Comments
They have been talking about this since before the 2nd world war, how long do they need?
It has been cancelled twice by different governments. Andrew Stunell tells me it was first discussed in 1929 !
Hopefully this time it will actually happen but even so, it will be 2025 before it is open.
The update provided is not correct. The Business Case would not include a full environmental study – only a “scoping report” ie it says what would be studied if a full study were to be done! Anyone can study the environmental impact by walking along the route while remembering that dual carriageways cause noise and pollution and the works will cover a wide area. Also remember that wildlife depends on these green spaces.
Hi Graham,
thank you for the clarification – yes, you are right about what happens at the next stage. I have asked officers for a timeline of the stages that the road will have to go through if it did proceed to being built and at what environmental studies would happen at each stage.
This coming phase would do more environmentally than we already have so far but I am told it would not make sense to do a full report straight away until plans are more concrete to avoid wasting resources unneccesarily.