Roadworks in the parish

We are all acutely aware of the impact of council budgets on the condition of our roads.  Added to this is the emphasis on safety during road repair work and we get the plethora of temporary traffic lights and road closures throughout the summer in particular.  Residents will have seen the dreaded yellow signs (not easy to read, usually) but the information on them is made available through a website "https://one.network" where requests to Cheshire East council for permits are recorded.  To make this information more readily available to residents, we have extracted information about roadworks in our parish (or potentially affecting our parish) into the sections below for the current week, next week and the foreseeable future.  This information requires regular updating so we apologise if holidays get in the way of keeping it right up to date.

While the parish council will try to help residents with road issues, we remind residents that Cheshire East provide a service where anyone can report road and other problems so as to have the district council attend to them.  The link to this service is https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/highways_and_roads/road-maintenance/report-a-road-issue.aspx.  There is a document prepared by your parish council to help you complete a report to Cheshire East and this is available here: Guidance on preparing a TraCE report.  The parish council will also forward residents concerns to Cheshire East and has contact with the CE road inspector for the area. 

(Click HERE to move forward a week or HERE to reset.)

The Cheshire East website requires you to pick a defect to report. It is hard to see what is on the whole list (78 items) so it is reproduced below to make reporting easier.  Sadly, one item is missing: "Damaged road surface" with the only option to be to report general road damage (e.g. in Walgherton hollow) as "Pothole".

Abandoned vehicle	Illuminated sign flickering	Slurry or mud on the road
Bridges	Illuminated sign light on during the day	Speedbumps
Condition of signs	Illuminated sign light out	Street light column damaged
Cycleways	Ironwork - grid/manhole/gully	Street light column leaning
Dead animals	Kerbs	Street light column relocation
Dog fouling	Littering	Street light door off
Emptying of dog bin	Marker posts/highways bollards	Street light flickering
Emptying of litter bin	Needles/syringes and glass	Street light hanging lantern
Fencing	Obstruction in road	Street light light intrusion
Flooding	Obstruction on pavement/footway	Street light light on during the day
Fly posting	Parking	Street light light out
Fly tipping	Pelican/toucan crossing	Street light tree obscuring
Footway - uneven surface	Pothole	Street light wires exposed
Graffiti	Report a damaged dog bin	Traffic signals - permanent
Grass cutting	Report a damaged litter bin	Traffic signals - temporary
Grit bins	Request a new dog/litter bin	Tree maintenance
Gritting	Request for new street lights	Vehicle restraint systems (vrs)/crash barrier
Gully - debris on top	Road markings, for example lines	Walls
Gully/drainage	Road noise or vibration	Weeds - highway, harmful/invasive
Hedge maintenance	Road sweeping	Winter related
Hedges - privately owned	Road traffic bollard – damaged	Zebra crossing – damaged
Highways structures - for example underpass	Road traffic bollard - light	Zebra crossing - damaged or hanging
Illuminated sign leaning	Road traffic bollard - requires cleaning	Zebra crossing - door off
Illuminated sign - tree	Road traffic bollard - wires exposed	Zebra crossing - leaning
Illuminated sign	Road traffic bollard missing	Zebra crossing - light out
Illuminated sign door off	Roadworks	Zebra crossing - wires exposed