A busy road connecting Wilmslow and Alderley Edge to the M6 will be closed for a month.
Chelford Road will be closed in Goostrey from today (Wednesday 2nd August) through to Sunday 3rd September to enable the Council to carry out repairs to Blackden Bridge and realign a dislodged parapet.
A spokesperson for Cheshire East Council said "We understand that there is no right time to undertake works in such a busy road as Chelford Road, and this has been planned to try to minimise disruption to local residents, businesses and members of the travelling public."
Chelford Road will be closed between Bridge Lane and Farm Lane junction and the closure will be in operation 24 hours a day.
A signed diversion will be in place from the A535 Chelford Road via Macclesfield Road, A50 Knutsford Road, London Road, Holmes Chapel Road, Toft Road, A537 Adam's Hill, A537 Brook Street, Chelford Road, Holmes Chapel Road and A535 Macclesfield Road, also operating in reverse.
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Excellent co-ordination.
I travel from Wilmslow to Stoke On Trent and this closure has cut off my usual route to work. So I decide to travel via Macclesfield only to discover that the Silk Road is closed and you have to crawl through Tytherington.
This means that the A34 has become the only route from North to South that I can take (discounting the M6, which is to be avoided like the plague). However, this road has roadworks on it as you approach Congleton, which is congested enough at the best of times.
CEC really need to do some joined up thinking before deciding to allow all these roadworks and that's without mentioning the never ending A34 improvements, the A555 extension, the traffic lights near the airport on Styal Road, the airport tunnel improvements.
Is it just me or have CEC lost the plot and decided to try and prevent the good folk of Wilmslow from leaving the area?