…then slags off innocent council officers when the excrement hits the air circulation device. What a man! Council officers can’t answer back:-
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/stockport-road-plans-thrown-out-7418349
“Hazel Grove MP Sir Andrew Stunell said: “The idea seems to have been dreamt-up behind the scenes by officers on Cheshire East and Stockport Councils. The LibDems in Hazel Grove spoke out against it immediately and forced the council to drop the plans.”
The Council is the dodgy LibDems! They told themselves to drop the barmy idea. Doh.
The bypass can’t be built because the SEMMMS bible – the 2001 Final Report states:-
“6.43 • constructing only one or two but not all of the A6(M), the Poynton Bypass and MALRW to the design previously proposed would simply amplify the existing traffic related problems experienced in the Hazel Grove, Poynton, Woodford, Bramhall, Handforth and Heald Green areas, the areas affected depending on the combination of schemes. As the impacts of traffic in these areas was one of the principal congestion-related problems identified during the course of Phase 1, such a result clearly acted against achieving the study’s defined objectives; ..”
Andrew Stunell, some might conclude, is a nasty piece of work.
He and Hunter, Goddard, Roberts, Derbyshire et al got their mate First Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, to engage in pork barrel politics and give the go-ahead for the “Cheadle Constituency Link Road” when there wasn’t even a business case in place. Why would he do that?
www.politicshome.com/uk/story/36543/
