Councillors tackling Gatley Road flooding
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by Lib Dem team on 23 November, 2024
In response to residents concerns, Local Councillors have advocated for special attention to the regular ponding around the crossing under Gatley Railway Station Bridge.
We have pleased to announce:
Highway Drainage Routine Maintenance – Gatley Road, near Gatley Station (between Oakwood Avenue and Springfield Road), Gatley.
Stockport Council is carrying out highway drainage maintenance work (jetting/desilting and CCTV surveys) on Gatley Road, Gatley under the railway bridge. This work will be carried out by our Framework Partner George Cox & Sons Ltd.
The scheduled start date is the Wednesday 27th November 2024 and is expected to take up to two nights to complete. The working hours will be between 19.00pm – 01.00am.
Unfortunately, to carry out this work it will be necessary to manage traffic flows on Gatley Road by utilising temporary traffic signals. This is to minimise disruption and allow safe working operations to take place.
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A significant amount of local ‘flooding’ is due to blocked drains. Surface grids are often packed with vegetation and so on. I’m not a climate change denier, but a lot of the problems can be easily managed by routine maintenance.
And not before time it has been like that flooding for at least two years.
It would also help considerably if the top water drains i.e gullies were cleaned out.
Between Matinee Road and the A34 Kingsway including both sides of Gatley Road at least 50% of the top water drains or gullies are blocked and take away no top water at all.
A check of these gullies would reveal the desperate need for these to be cleaned out properly.
Whilst I welcome this I am sure it’s been addressed in the past. I was very concerned at the ponding at the bottom of Schools Hill which has also become as bad as ever! When it freezes it becomes a danger to cars and pedestrians
The pond at the bottom of School’s Hill is currently a lake. It covers half the road. It is dangerous for both pedestrians and cars, as it is so deep.
They should also be looking urgently at the flooding at the traffic lights outside St Mary’s church.
Yesterday, I managed, with difficulty, to continue to walk home by going through the churchyard. The pond there was impassible.
I contacted Stockport MBC about this last winter and nothing was done. Every grid between Springfield Rd and the centre of Gatley is completely blocked and that is causing flooding along that entire stretch. I would be very surprised if there are not hundreds of blocked grids throughout Gatley due to poor maintenance. Please ensure it is not just the grids under the bridge that are cleared.
Thanks
I’m pleased for residents/users of this crossing…fingers crossed that the proposed works are effective.
The blocked gulleys around Cheadle High Street are always causing ponding
I have reported this on several occasions. No result.
Add this to outstanding matters requiring your attention please.
Chased to have grids unblocked for years.
Told on multiple occasions that they had been done and were cleaned regularly.
I had photos showing otherwise, but got the same story.
So it is not just about cleaning the grids – but a complete lack of process and accountability.
It would be great to have the records checked for the last decade!
The flooding in the area has been a problem for many years and nothing has ever been done about it. Why on earth was money not spent on rectifying this instead of the unnecessary work done and being done around Gatley Rd/Milton Crescent/Broadway etc. (must say lights at end of Broadway the only good thing). Also who is going to tend the scruffy looking bushes at end of Milton Crescent. unnecessarily planted.
In view of the comments and the involvement of local residents regarding this problem it would be nice to see some form of response from the lib Dem team.
I am sure I am not the only one who would be interested to see what the lib dem team thinks about these comments.
Gully cleaning is undertaken on a scheduled rota basis.
Here is the rota for the period September 2024 to January 2025 in Cheadle West and Gately:
Cheadle West and Gatley
• Broadway
• Daylesford Road
• Crescent area
• Turnfield Road
• Brackenwood Drive
• Valley Road areas
• Massie Street area
• Brookfield Road
• Oak Road area
• New Hey Road area
• Foxland Road
• Springfield Road
• Borrowdale Avenue
The team was last in Cheadle West and Gately in the period June to August 2024 when amongst other roads they clean Styal Road.
Gully Cleaning is undertaken on a two/three year cycle.
Gully Cleaning in this sense means removing debris from the bottom of the pot below the grid, which only needs attentional on a multi-year basis.
Separately, we have a leaf removal programme for the surface grids which runs October to January, that is underway now.
It is possible to see the rota at: https://www.stockport.gov.uk/grids-and-drains
In general gullies are moderately sophisticated. Comprising a collection pipe between 750 and 1200 mm deep by 275 to 450 mm diameter.
The pipe leads to a silt collection pot, this is what we empty during gully cleaning.
Subject to size, a gully can hold between 51 and 142 litres.
A typical British bath (1700 x 700 x 545 mm) holds approximately 180 litres.
A gully can become blocked by detritus over time which is why we clean them on a two/three year cycle.
More commonly the grid at the top is affected by leaf litter or similar. This reduces the water flow but rarely completely blocks.
This is the reason we have a leaf removal programme in the months after autumn.
One of the roles for councillors is to visit known areas of ponding after heavy rain fall, example
St Marys Parish Church, Church Road Cheadle on Sunday 24th November at 10.10 am ponding
The same location on Sunday 24th November by 2pm mostly drained
An example of a slow draining rather than blocked gully.
Our approach is to tackle issues as we can looking for damaged gullies (tree roots for example), much as we are at the Gately Station Bridge.
Other areas we have responded to over the last few years:
– Corner of Wilmslow Road/Gatley Road Cheadle (near
the Istanbul Grill) – ponding – remedial work
undertaken – still monitoring
– Corner of Birch Road/Church Road (outside Prince of
Wales PH) Gately – ponding – new gullies fitted – still
monitoring
– Corner of Church Road/parking area Gately – (old Co-
op) – ponding – remedial work undertaken – still
monitoring
– Pedestrian crossing bottom of Church Road/Styal
Road Gatley – ponding – recently cleaned – drains
check for blockage – trees trimmed to reduce leaf litter
– still monitoring
– Borrowdale Avenue, Gatley – flooding – fitted 2 x
storm gullies
– Bus Stop by Cheadle Green Stockport Road –
ponding – fillet applied to level the road
– Parking bay outside Tesco Express, Church Road,
Gatley – ponding – fillet applied to level the road
As we receive notification of similar issues we will undertake the work needed as recommended by Highway Engineers.