Alderley Road in Wilmslow will be closed for up to 10 days in September to enable United Utilities to carry out works.
The road will be closed from the junction of Holly Road south to Fulshaw Cross roundabout.
The alternative route will be via Fulshaw Cross Roundabout, Alderley Road, Manchester Road, Manchester Road Roundabout, Bollin Valley Link, Bollin Valley Link to Dean Row Road, Bollin Valley Roundabout, Birrell Way, Thorngrove Roundabout, Pendleton Way, Harden Park Roundabout and vice versa.
The road closure will come into operation on Monday 9th September 2024 and it is anticipated that the works will be completed by Thursday 19th September 2024.
United Utilities are currently scheduled to carry out further works by on Alderley Road, opposite 97/junction of roundabout, between Monday 4th November 2024 and Friday 15th November 2024.
Under current Health & Safety legislation and for the safety of the workforce and members of the public, it will be necessary for another road closure to be in place for the upcoming works.
If you have any enquiries relating to the works, please contact United Utilities Water Ltd on telephone number 0345 072 0829.
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United Utilities have drinking water and sewerage pipes under the majority of our roads - sometimes not always in the pipes as we know from the issues by Waitrose! We all want drinking water delivered and our waste taking away. If the infrastructure needs to be repaired or upgraded then I think that is a justified reason to dig up the road.
UU have to get authorisation from CEC, who are obliged to give it. UU have requested for "up to 10 days" implying that it may be finished earlier. I seem to recall an issue on Chapel Lane just before Christmas, where pressure from a local councillor got the work finished within a day.
I freely admit that I'm not an expert on digging holes and repairing pipes, but I do know that there seem to be loads of people who could do the job better than UU in Wilmslow.
So UU are responsible for he problem, UU essentially control how long the disruption takes, local councillors pressure UU to resolve quickly and CEC get the blame for causing disruption.
Why are the Alderley Rd works not 24/7? Because CEC are complicit and accept poor productivity and low work standard.
I lived in Germany for 5yrs, utility companies were forced to work hard to avoid such interruptions, we never, ever had more than 3 day road closures. Nothing should take two weeks.
As it happens it is the local community that pays the cost for tardy utilities' work not the incompetent management. The boot needs to be on the other foot!!.
Council officers also need to to put their community before the utilities by requiring strict completion dates to all such works or face heavy fines for completion.
But at the same time I agree with you! It shouldn't take 10 days for the fix and as the consumer we should challenge UU on their disruption. We also should have CEC pressuring on our behalf to bring the timescales down and to be imposing financial penalties for overruns or shoddy work.
I guess my point would better have read as "Why is it always ONLY CEC who get the blame for roadworks?"
This is why CEC are culpable. They wilfully close roads, then don't care about how long the repairs take (and care even less about the economic impact and 1,000s of hours of THEIR customers' time that is being affected).
Same with the closure on Faulkners Lane. 2 months closed for repair work that should have taken a weekend. The within 24hrs of it reopening, it was closed again for 7 days for a different utility company to dig a 6" trench along the side of the road.....except the road wasn't closed, it was perfectly passable, but they were allowed to close the road for another week.
The only answer is that CEC are seeking to make good their disastrous financial management and have gone into the business of making 'Road Closed' and 'Diversion" signs and are making £1,000s a day through the sale of them ;-)
Utterly incompetent.