PEOPLE feeling their village has been cut off by roadworks have showed their displeasure by altering a road sign.
The A560 Stockport Road, the main route through the Gee Cross area of Hyde, has been closed since March 29.
But residents have grown fed up with seeing the closure, so some have changed it to read it will be shut for 14 YEARS!
The closure has seen the main 202 bus route, which takes people into Hyde town centre, diverted.
Local councillor Phil Chadwick has been fielding concerns from worried elderly and vulnerable people.
And businesses have also been told there is no specific compensation scheme in respect of Business Rates matters.
However, the Valuation Office Agency may help if the road closure is to be in place for a considerable length of time and there is a ‘significant, sustained and evidenced decrease in footfall as a result.’
Judging from what people have made the sign now say, it looks like the roadworks may be there for some time yet.
Can someone tell us a timescale for completion or is this yet another cock up from tameside council where they don’t plan or know what they are doing
Nothing to do with the council. The timeframe is to do with the subcontractors for the work, which afaik is United Utilities. I suppose the grumpy self centered nimbys what live in gee cross don’t want safe drinking water, along with the lack of mobile phone signal too.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I suggest you get your facts straight before casting aspersions on a community.
Nothing to do with drinking water or mobile masts. The clueless developers collapsed the rainwater storm drain when excavating for the building foundations 3 months ago. Stockport Road has flooded 5 times since yet never before.
When investigating the blockage in the drains the council/water board put green florescent dye into the drains where the roadworks are today and it took 3 weeks to get into the water table and now Dowson Brook is green. This proves the blockage is between that drain and the Brook. So rather than find the blockage on the building site which is the only thing changed, the developer has decided to dig up the road where there is no blockage at all for some obscure reason rather that fixing the problem that they obviously caused. There is a 14 day window for this work to be done and local village businesses rely on this traffic from the main road including Tesco. It is also the main access road from Woodley Bredbury to the M67 motorway to Manchester and Snake Pass to Glossop and Sheffield.
The “lackof-workmen” guys turn up at 7.30 work for 2 hours and go home. The 2 week deadline ends on Thursday at midnight.
I will be amazed if it’s open by Whit weekend.
What a load of garbage ???? not once has anyone worked for two hours then left, even working Saturday over the bank holiday, the 300 year old culvert has always been planned to be diverted, as it ran under the homes that are being built, the work is imperative to allow the well needed new homes to be built. It has been planned for the Easter holidays to minimize disruption, to the area. The work will be completed on time, and you sir have been vandalizing the road signs out of spite as you clearly have nothing better to do with your pathetic little life. Take up a hobby pal
I fail to see what a councillor is going to raise considering it’s the council who planned this closure
The drainage roadworks team turned up at 7.30 again turned on the water pump watched it for 2 hours and then went home. I bet they have blisters from that hard work.
Meanwhile the 14 days is up on Thursday midnight.
Councillor Chadwick is raising it at a Council meeting.
I notice there is a new sign today.
DIVERSION
ENDS
WHEN HELL FREEZES.
AND ANOTHER THAT SAYS
DIVERSION
ENDS
IN MAY 2176
I see there are people that are clueless about what is actually going on particularly the guy with the infantile name. Probably him doing the “work”
There is no danage to the signs and protest is totally legal.
Now the signs have been altered and this article hsppened the Councillor Phil Chadwick is involved a Council meeting took place and all of a sudden the excavators have done a full day’s work between 8am and 4.30pm for the first day ever. The builders have collapsed the drains and the houses on the main road have consequently been subjected to water damage 5 times in 10 years all in February 2023. It took 3 weeks for the dye to clear the building site told the council and United Utilities the exact cause.
Hopefully the works will put this right but I’m not holding my breath
They plan to have it finished by Sunday.
Somebody has sabotaged the water pump on the road closure filling the fuel tank with a liquid resulting in the pump breaking down costing further delays.
To clarify the situation, the closure is in place to divert a historic stone culvert around the new build houses, a manhole is being built for the change of direction and a new pipe run into the site for the developers to pick up inside the boundary, the contractors have encountered many unforeseen obstacles including historic tram lines, many utility services not on drawings resulting in most of the trench having to be hand dug, the weather has far from helped with the underground stream constantly flowing at a severe rate. From the start united utilities drawings were incorrect costing time to actually find the culvert initially, It is in everybody’s interest to get the job complete. It doesn’t help with everybody working against them.
The closure has been planned for over a month which is the notice tameside council require to make the public aware of the two week closure.
To see such constant vandalism towards people simply trying to get the job done is saddening. I hope the person vandalising signs takes note of this.