A luxury boutique hotel is not what you’d expect to come across in the middle of a park in Greater Manchester. But it’s exactly what you’ll find at the heart of Bruntwood Park in Stockport.
08.08.2022 - 20:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Proposed cuts to bus services in Stockport could have a ‘devastating’ effect, a borough transport chief has warned. Government funding helped to keep bus services going during the pandemic, as plummeting passenger numbers put them at risk.
But that emergency cash is set to be pulled from October - and commercial operators in Greater Manchester have identified dozens of unprofitable services they intend to axe completely or run less often. In Stockport, nine services are earmarked for the chop, while a further five would operate at a reduced frequency.
However, a plan to save the routes and maintain services levels has been hatched by local leaders. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is currently working on retendering contracts, with funding from existing budgets and the government’s Bus Service Improvement Plan.
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Proposals go before the Greater Manchester Transport Committee (GMTC) for sign off on Friday. But Stockport councillor - and GMTC member - Coun David Meller says the rescue package is entirely dependent on successfully retendering the contracts - leaving vital bus services in the borough ‘under serious threat’.
He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service losing the services would be ‘devastating’. And finding new operators to take the routes on may not be easy. A report to the transport committee acknowledges that rising costs - including fuel and driver wages - have ‘further undermined the viability of the network and continues to do so’.
Coun Meller said: “By not supporting bus routes fully and effectively asking operators to ‘pick and choose’ the routes they can operate for profit, it not only makes a mockery of
A luxury boutique hotel is not what you’d expect to come across in the middle of a park in Greater Manchester. But it’s exactly what you’ll find at the heart of Bruntwood Park in Stockport.
Manchester United cancelled a planned pre-match meeting at The Lowry Hotel in Salford on Monday afternoon at short notice due to security fears.
"The way things are going, I probably won’t be here this time next year or at Christmas", Peter Doherty sighs. His café, Coffee House in Withington, offers one of the cheapest breakfasts in Manchester.
A man has been arrested after homes on a street were evacuated amid fears of a gas leak. Fire crews, police and paramedics attended Petersburg Road in Edgeley, Stockport, at around 11am on Friday morning.
A much-loved burger and wing restaurant and takeaway is setting up shop in Stockport town centre. Bun and Bones Club are moving from their site in Hazel Grove to the kitchen of Doctor Feelgood - a bar and live music venue on the Market Place.
A driver has been reported after police discovered a dog was left inside a vehicle during extremely hot weather.
“This is the only bus that gets me to work on time,” says Caitlyn Lamb, as she waits for the number 11 service from Cheadle to her utility firm job in Edgeley. The 26-year-old sets off each morning from Woodford, near Stockport’s border with Cheshire, getting the 42B bus to Cheadle, then hopping on the number 11 to arrive at work on the other side of the borough in good time.
Metrolink services are buckling under the heat once again as Greater Manchester continues to bask in sunshine. Services have been cancelled this afternoon (August 13) between Bury and Crumpsall, in north Manchester.
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‘Not enough vaccines, test results delayed for days, and people cancelling Pride plans’ - monkeypox fears are building as the number of cases in Greater Manchester are on the rise.
Police are appealing for information after a serious crash in Stockport which saw two people cut from a van and a car. Four people were injured and two people currently remain in hospital after the collision yesterday afternoon (August 7).
Manchester United are considering signing Marko Arnautovic this summer window and the transfer revelation has raised eyebrows at Old Trafford and beyond.
Four Vietnamese nationals feared to have died in a mill fire in Oldham have been named. They are married father Cuong Van Chu, 39, married Uoc Van Nguyen, 31, Duong Van Nguyen, 29, and 21-year-old Nam Thanh Le.
Passengers travelling on trains through Stockport will face disruption until the end of the day.
Emergency services were called to Manchester Airport after a baggage truck crashed.
Hundreds of new homes are to be built on the site of a burnt down mill despite fears over congestion, flooding and loss of green space. Proposals for a 311-home estate, at the former Rex Mill site, in Middleton, were passed by a majority vote at the latest meeting of Rochdale council’s planning committee.