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Post by owainsutton on Feb 20, 2020 12:51:55 GMT
I'm sure I saw it here somewhere that it was only the two Bramhall/Woodford wards that didn't have Burnham first across the borough last time. That seems incredible where Labour are relatively weak in a chunk of both the Cheadle and Hazel Grove constituencies. Similarly, wasn't Burnham beaten in only two of the Trafford wards and in just one other ward across the entire mayoral boundary? The other ward was Heaton and Lostock in Bolton. Even Bromley Cross and Bradshaw wards went for Burnham last time, though I don't see them doing so this time. Having council elections at the same time may have a double effect, of reducing Burnham's majority a bit whilst helping out labour at council level. Burnham will definitely walk it though. The turnout last time was 29%, so pretty much exactly the same people as vote in locals. The unknown factor is how they might split their vote across the two ballots. (Especially in the case of Salford, where the council is having all-outs.) |
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Post by unrepentantfool on Feb 28, 2020 17:27:53 GMT
I don't understand why they don't make the streets around permit only and build a multi story car park at the hospital because that seems to be the source of conflict. We have a similar problem with the Royal Berkshire Hospital here in Reading. The difference is there is no room on the hospital site to build another multi story and instead a bus from the park and ride at Mereoak (M4 J11) has been introduced for staff to get into work without parking nearby and reducing spaces for visitors. |
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Post by finsobruce on Feb 28, 2020 17:28:44 GMT
I don't understand why they don't make the streets around permit only and build a multi story car park at the hospital because that seems to be the source of conflict. We have a similar problem with the Royal Berkshire Hospital here in Reading. The difference is there is no room on the hospital site to build another multi story and instead a bus from the park and ride at Mereoak (M4 J11) has been introduced for staff to get into work without parking nearby and reducing spaces for visitors. A multi storey car park!!!
Expect a visit from Extinction Rebellion and possibly Greta Thunberg as well.
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Post by unrepentantfool on Feb 28, 2020 17:33:39 GMT
I don't understand why they don't make the streets around permit only and build a multi story car park at the hospital because that seems to be the source of conflict. We have a similar problem with the Royal Berkshire Hospital here in Reading. The difference is there is no room on the hospital site to build another multi story and instead a bus from the park and ride at Mereoak (M4 J11) has been introduced for staff to get into work without parking nearby and reducing spaces for visitors. A multi storey car park!!!
Expect a visit from Extinction Rebellion and possibly Greta Thunberg as well.
ER are very active round here, in fact I've marched with them, there's a photo in the paper of me with the ER banner on the Reading Climate Strike. But I think they'd accept it because Reading traffic is atrocious and the Royal Berkshire Hospital serves pretty rural areas not served by a bus or any other public transport i.e a large section of Berks, Oxon and Hampshire. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 28, 2020 17:39:31 GMT
I don't understand why they don't make the streets around permit only and build a multi story car park at the hospital because that seems to be the source of conflict. We have a similar problem with the Royal Berkshire Hospital here in Reading. The difference is there is no room on the hospital site to build another multi story and instead a bus from the park and ride at Mereoak (M4 J11) has been introduced for staff to get into work without parking nearby and reducing spaces for visitors. You have never seen a hospital with more woeful, confusing parking. |
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Post by unrepentantfool on Feb 28, 2020 17:42:41 GMT
I don't understand why they don't make the streets around permit only and build a multi story car park at the hospital because that seems to be the source of conflict. We have a similar problem with the Royal Berkshire Hospital here in Reading. The difference is there is no room on the hospital site to build another multi story and instead a bus from the park and ride at Mereoak (M4 J11) has been introduced for staff to get into work without parking nearby and reducing spaces for visitors. You have never seen a hospital with more woeful, confusing parking. I mean, have you even been to the Royal Berks? It's the main hospital for more than 500,000 people and it has about 1000 spaces if that in its car parks. Cue traffic chaos. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 28, 2020 17:44:29 GMT
You have never seen a hospital with more woeful, confusing parking. I mean, have you even been to the Royal Berks? It's the main hospital for more than 500,000 people and it has about 1000 spaces if that in its car parks. Cue traffic chaos. Sodding Hell manages a bizarre situation where coming off the top level of one car park forces you to cross the traffic coming in, with no alternative. Baffling. |
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Post by unrepentantfool on Feb 28, 2020 17:46:46 GMT
I mean, have you even been to the Royal Berks? It's the main hospital for more than 500,000 people and it has about 1000 spaces if that in its car parks. Cue traffic chaos. Sodding Hell manages a bizarre situation where coming off the top level of one car park forces you to cross the traffic coming in, with no alternative. Baffling. 🤣 So half the problem is that they need to build another separate exit from the car park basically? |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Feb 28, 2020 18:28:42 GMT
My mother was in Stepping Hill hospital for a few days a couple of years ago, parking was absolute hell and ridiculously - I would say cruelly - expensive.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Feb 28, 2020 19:17:34 GMT
My mother was in Stepping Hill hospital for a few days a couple of years ago, parking was absolute hell and ridiculously - I would say cruelly - expensive. I agree. I was in there with a ruptured appendix a few years ago and my relatives were all livid with the charges. Although that was the least of my issues. |
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Post by willlucky on Nov 24, 2020 21:38:55 GMT
About expected to be honest. It wasn't a question of if, just when. I must admit though to do so after the Mayor folded on High Lane is rather hilarious, it could have triggered a domino effect with the other Councils and some of their contested parts of the GMSF.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 24, 2020 23:02:51 GMT
About expected to be honest. It wasn't a question of if, just when. I must admit though to do so after the Mayor folded on High Lane is rather hilarious, it could have triggered a domino effect with the other Councils and some of their contested parts of the GMSF.
5,000 new homes at High Lane is complete insanity. Woodford almost makes sense, Stanley Green/Heald Green had challenges but was best-placed, but High Lane is just crackers. |
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Post by where2travel on Nov 24, 2020 23:26:31 GMT
About expected to be honest. It wasn't a question of if, just when. I must admit though to do so after the Mayor folded on High Lane is rather hilarious, it could have triggered a domino effect with the other Councils and some of their contested parts of the GMSF.
5,000 new homes at High Lane is complete insanity. Woodford almost makes sense, Stanley Green/Heald Green had challenges but was best-placed, but High Lane is just crackers. Woodford probably makes some sense based on the space that was occupied by the Aerodrome arguably not being fields etc beforehand. Is there any sense that infrastructure is being built to support the expansion of a village in this way? The article talks about a further 750 homes, which would be in addition to the 900 already built (or still being built). It's clear it's all still go with new roads and by-passes being built in and around the area, but there is nothing much in Woodford in terms of shops, schools, public transport etc. As an aside, I was at Woodford Primary School when it closed down (and before a private school was there for several years before that closed too). At the point of closure, there were just 36 (I think) pupils in total from ages 4 to 11. Woodford is certainly changing at a rapid pace. It'll have its own ward on Stockport council soon, rather than being a minor appendage to Bramhall. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 24, 2020 23:35:03 GMT
where2travel, that's the problem with the new homes- the lack of infrastructure you mention hasn't changed at all! There's a garden centre and a Londis and a few hairdressers, plus Avro golf course. And nothing else. No rail service of course, and neither Bramhall nor Poynton are set up well enough to support it. At least at Stanley Green they are considering building a station.
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Post by where2travel on Nov 25, 2020 0:08:12 GMT
where2travel , that's the problem with the new homes- the lack of infrastructure you mention hasn't changed at all! There's a garden centre and a Londis and a few hairdressers, plus Avro golf course. And nothing else. No rail service of course, and neither Bramhall nor Poynton are set up well enough to support it. At least at Stanley Green they are considering building a station. The shops have always been a bit of a dead loss (aside from a Post Office/newsagents which closed years ago). Other than the small supermarket you mention (which is newer), there's been nothing of much day-to-day use occupying the shops in the centre. The Thief's Neck further up the road is pretty good. However, it highlights the historic problem with Woodford that is has no proper village centre now - the church and pub (and the old school I mentioned above) are clustered together at one end of the village, not really central to where many people live (even before Woodford Garden Village was designed). |
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Post by philipgraves on Nov 26, 2020 7:13:28 GMT
I expect the Lib Dems to straightforwardly become the largest party here.
I expect them to end up with 100% of the council seats in Hazel Grove constituency like they had in 2010 as Marple South/High lane was only lost narrowly in 2016. They also have a plausible outside shot at Bramhall South on a very good night.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 26, 2020 10:58:14 GMT
I expect the Lib Dems to straightforwardly become the largest party here. I expect them to end up with 100% of the council seats in Hazel Grove constituency like they had in 2010 as Marple South/High lane was only lost narrowly in 2016. They also have a plausible outside shot at Bramhall South on a very good night. I concur. A hung council with a Lib Dem administration, tolerated if not enthusiastically so by the Ratepayers and any surviving Tories. There will of course be the annual tilt at a ward by the Greens, which will make lots of noise but go nowhere as they seem unwilling to target the same one twice. |
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Post by where2travel on Nov 26, 2020 14:02:25 GMT
I expect the Lib Dems to straightforwardly become the largest party here. I expect them to end up with 100% of the council seats in Hazel Grove constituency like they had in 2010 as Marple South/High lane was only lost narrowly in 2016. They also have a plausible outside shot at Bramhall South on a very good night. It surprised me on looking back that since the creation of Bramhall North and Bramhall South wards (from the 2004 elections), it's only North that has ever elected a Lib Dem (back in 2007). South has always felt generally a bit more competitive for the Lib Dems, and feel it should be in reach on a good night (as you say). After the Heatons, I think Bramhall South was the most Remain ward on the council (62%). |
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