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New cost estimate for 'withdrawn' Mottram Bypass - £19.6 million
Our old friend John Hall has been doing some digging. He recently requested from the Highways Agency information about the total cost of the original Bypass scheme to date in a Freedom of Information...
View ArticleJonathan Reynolds snubbed by Transport Minister over Bypass plea
Actually, that's the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Norman Baker. Stalybridge& Hyde MP, Jonathan Reynolds, submitted a written question to him recently:To ask the Secretary...
View ArticleLongdendale Labour Party member breaks ranks on Mottram Tesco
Today's Tameside Reporter contains a letter from a Mr S Naz, voicing concerns about the proposed new MottramTesco store. We'll reproduce the letter in full below:It'll cause chaosDisgrace! That is the...
View ArticleBypass 2.0 now placed on hold - coup de grace please?!
With the Greater Manchester Transport Fund hitting the buffers, the good news today is that Bypass 2.0 has been named as one of the first schemes as part of that project to be placed on hold, according...
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What is the closing date for objections to the Mottram Tesco?
Visitors to the TMBC webpage for the Mottram Tesco application will be under the impression that the official closing date for objections is 15th July. This is also the case for those who saw the...
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How much did Tameside spend on their 'virtual' bypass?
It's a question that needs answering, especially in the light of the revelations today (which are now reaching a national audience) about how Tameside MBC spent £36,000 to create a 'virtual council' on...
View ArticleReynolds rants about Bypass 2.0 in Parliament - and threatens civil...
Last Tuesday, the new Stalybridge and Hyde MP Jonathan 'Jonny' Reynolds saw his opportunity to once again raise the profile of the doomed Mottram Bypass, this time in the House of Commons. The occasion...
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Oldham's Wood - the new name for Swallow's Wood?
If you've been paying a certain amount of attention to the local press in recent weeks, you may have noticed that there have been tentative ideas mooted about naming a Tameside Nature Reserve after the...
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Local Tesco ructions, Local Elections and Local morons
Regular readers may have noticed that some time has passed between the last post and this one. We can only apologise for that, but it’s obvious that posting to this blog has become occasional of late,...
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Longdendale Siege plan 'pedestrian crossing' demonstration next week
Longdendale Siege's Mike Flynn gives the exclusive to this week's Glossop Chronic that he and his chums are planning a novel demonstration next Wednesday morning: they plan to stand at pedestrian...
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Longdendale Siege's dismal protest failure
Longdendale Siege Committee's protest on Wednesday morning was by all accounts a dismal failure (worthy of failblog, hence the picture). But you wouldn't know it if you'd read the new online article...
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Congratulations to Sean & Sian - just don't tell the wife!
Well, it's rare that one of the talked about turns up to talk to us, but it may well be that we have an exclusive. You may remember in a post last week we mentioned that Sean Parker-Perry's mistress -...
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Never mind Hattersley, there's already a Tesco in Hollingworth
Bet you didn't know that? It is entirely the case though, that Tesco already have a store in Longdendale. Yes, Tesco own the One-Stop chain of convenience stores, an example of which can be found on...
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Shock horror: previously loyal Glossop Chronicle labels Siege protest a...
We're pretty stunned with the report of the Siege protest in this week's Glossop Chronic. Despite using a similar excuse to the Advertiser that a "fire at the Peniston (sic) end" meant traffic wasn't...
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The last rites for Bypass & Bypass 2.0 - it's over (for now)
Here's a link to the Department for Transport announcement made late yesterday afternoon about the future funding of road schemes.There's no mention of both the original Bypass scheme, nor Bypass 2.0....
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STOP PRESS: Government approves Hattersley Tesco
According to a press release issued by Tameside MBC today, the Government Office of the North West have 'no objection' to the plan for a Tesco Extra at Hattersley. To say that this announcement...
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Jonathan Reynolds speaks about Tesco - at last - and calls traffic concerns a...
As part of all the mewling and puking from the roads lobby last week surrounding the government decision to cut the Mottram Bypass, the Stalybridge and Hyde MP, Jonathan Reynolds, saw an opportunity to...
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Unelected and unrepresentative Lord Pendry speaks out on the bypass cut
Despite Jonathan Reynolds'intervention the other day on the Bypass issue, there has been little noise from Tameside's politicians about the cutting of government funding for the Bypass. The motives for...
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Campaign for Better Transport can't see the wood for the trees
In his latest blog over at the Campaign for Better Transport website, Roads and Climate Change campaignerRichard George makes a convincing case for why Tameside MBC should just give up the fight for...
View Article'Medieval Dramatists' Longdendale Siege appear on Andy Crane's Radio show -...
Now we're sure there are some readers out there that have fond memories of the BBC's Andy Crane in his days in the BBC's broom cupboard with his sidekick hand puppet Edd the Duck. But after last...
View ArticleSecond Siege crossing protest a failure - as their own video demonstrates!
We've yet to write a proper feature on the second pedestrian crossing protest by the Longdendale Siege Committee, although one is in the works along with a video, but in the meantime we thought we'd...
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Tesco Values: the role of the Highways Agency in the Hattersley Tesco
Many thanks to NMB reader and occasional contributor kirtlegreen for this analysis of the role of the Highways Agency in relation to the Hattersley Tesco:The Highways Agency are the Statutory Authority...
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Bingham secures Adjournment Debate on the Bypass
Thanks once again to NMB contributor Kirtle Green for another blog, which can be read below.Andrew Bingham, Enemy of the Peak District, has secured an imminent pre-Christmas Adjournment Debate on the...
View ArticleBypass, lol
Bypass, lol. After nearly 4 years away from this site (never mind the whole issue of the bypass), and seeing the news today, that's all I can muster. Politicians - of any stripe - should be wary about...
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