A local farm butcher is ruefully counting the cost of the current road works on Styal Road, where Electricity North West is currently 5 weeks into a 12 week closure.
David Kirk, who has been running his butchers farm shop on the Peacock Farm site in Styal for thirty years, claims that the road closure has resulted in a 50% reduction of his trade.
Mr Kirk told wilmslow.co.uk "I accept that the work may be needed but, however important it is, I get no compensation for my business loss. Moreover, the closure could not have come at a worse time of the year as I am already taking orders for Christmas."
He added "The closure was expected to last for twelve weeks but it will now be December before the road reopens and I am concerned, as this kind of work often overruns.
"The contractors have recently been persuaded to put up a notices saying that it is 'business as usual' but one sign is at the junction with Station Road and can only be seen when shoppers are already in Styal and a few hundred yards away from my shop."
The road works are being undertaken to enable engineers from Electricity North West to replace 5km of faulty oil-filled cables, which have been in place for around 60 years, with new environmentally-friendly and efficient cables.
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Let's hope he's entitled to some form of compensation.
Regardless of what time you travel it seems now as if every road is dangerously gridlocked.
And with how Cheshire East are orchestrating things, it will get much worse with traffic coming from Little Stanneylands, Bollin Park, Heathfield Farm, Sagars Road, East Handforth Village, Dean Coppice and of course, the threat of a bigger Lidl on Dean Row Road that nobody seems to want either.
Interesting shirt on David Kirk. Is it a nod towards his Star Trek brother ?