Industrial Development :: Woolley Bridge Lane, Hadfield

"THE property company owned by multi-millionaire Sale Sharks boss Brian Kennedy is to create a massive new business park in Glossop.Patrick Properties, which was set up by Kennedy in 2002, has been granted detailed planning permission for Graphite - a 345,000 sq ft industrial site on Woolley Bridge Road in Hadfield, Glossop..." full story (Manchester Online)

Hmm. So how will all the HGVs/extra traffic this new development creates access the new development? Not via New Road, as turning is too tight from the A628. Must be via Woolley Bridge roundabout then. Interesting that at the same time as purporting to be reducing traffic into the area, new development encouraging more traffic are getting Council approval. Doesn't add up somehow.

Some news...

Health warnings urged for SUVs
"Four-wheel drive jeeps should carry compulsory health warnings on their body panels, environmental campaigners said yesterday..." read full story

Roads agency 'too timid to tackle jams'
"Britain's highway managers are making inadequate efforts to tackle traffic jams because of a "risk-averse" attitude to new ideas and poor planning for crowd-pulling events, according to the government's spending watchdog..." read full story

Traffic levels on road increasing
"The Department of Transport has dismissed suggestions that more traffic means roads are more congested. Traffic was up 2.1% between July to September on the same time last year, according to DoT figures out on Thursday..." read full story

Anger over M6 Toll extension plan
"Residents of a Staffordshire village close to the M6 are holding a meeting over the impact of plans to extend the toll road..." read full story

Clarkson in deep peat over 4x4 ride

"He is always trying to take the use of cars to new heights, but the Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson's ascent of a Scottish mountain in a 4x4 has been condemned as a stunt too far..."
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What a git. Still, I'm glad it wasn't just me that thought it was completely out of order.

Problems for public transport in the countryside...

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0155f5e0-3cf7-11d9-bb7b-00000e2511c8.html (subscribers only)