More than 22,000 homes and business in Wilmslow, Handforth, Chelford and Alderley Edge are set to benefit from a £1.7m upgrade to the local power network.
Engineers from Electricity North West, the region's power network operator, are replacing 5km of underground electricity cables between Alderley Edge and Wilmslow.
The project, which will start on the 24th July, will replace faulted oil-filled cables which have been in place for around 60 years, with new environmentally-friendly and efficient cables.
John Pietsch, South Operations Transmission Manager, for Electricity North West, said: "We're proud to be investing almost £2m in the local community to ensure 22,000 customers, including Styal Prison and Quarry Bank Mill, enjoy a reliable supply of power which we all take for granted every day.
"Power cuts are thankfully rare, but as these cables were first installed in the 1960s it's vital we upgrade them now and replace a faulty cable, so we continue to deliver an excellent, safe and affordable service to all our customers across the region.
"It's an investment of around £1 per property per year to keep power flowing for at least another 60 years, so it's great to be delivering such value for such an essential service to the local area."
The work, which has been agreed by Cheshire East Council, will start on the 24th July and take approximately 17 weeks. Work has been scheduled to take place during the school summer holidays to try and minimise the impact for motorists and residents.
Updated: Monday 24th July - Temporary traffic lights and road closures will be in place to allow engineers to safely carry out the work and diversions will be signposted. The first announced closure is Styal Road in WIlmslow which will now be closed from August 7th for 12 weeks.
See the Cheshire East Council's website for more information regarding road closures and planned works.
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There is never a good time to invest in out networks when it means delays on roads but we are alway first to complain when the roads are in a poor state of repair, we have a power cut, burst water main or poor broadband.
I support the investment. Thank you Electricity North West.
You couldn't make this up!!!! Thats every major road now around Wilmslow with roadworks on.
I rang the council about the months of delays on the A34 bypass around Stanley Green where traffic cones sit with little visible sign of work. Only to get lame excuses that things will be happening. The new airport link road will bring traffic much faster to the Styal Road cross over but we find that no underpass is planned here. So all this expensive project with complex crossovers will bring traffic to a halt at red lights just before the airport. Already, I have never seen such queuing going all the way from the airport turn nearly to Styal village. In a further twist, Stockport Council decided to spend taxpayers money on new lights at the A34 Eden park Road roundabout - by the office block, and it is only a three way turn easily handled by the roundabout. This was never a traffic problem before but now it has slowed traffic further. Is this really an intelligent use of public money?
Some common sense is needed around the phasing of these works. Reasonable people can accommodate road closures and temporary traffic lights, but draw the line when it comes to all main arterial routes in and out of town being simultaneously impacted.
Poor planning.