Representation by Phillip Sargeant
- Date submitted
- 21 August 2021
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I have been a resident of Mottram for over two years, and own a period property metres away from the very busy interchange of Stalybridge Road and Market Street/Mottram Rise. Over the years, houses have been demolished to accommodate increasing traffic levels, but this village interchange feels like the only bottleneck for heavy haulage vehicles moving goods from Manchester TO Sheffield. Mottram is an old mill town and the roads here are just not wide or big enough to accommodate the increasing levels at a sustainable level. The pollution must be high, the congestion and traffic queuing times are long. We purchased and renovated a very unique heritage property, an old 1790's tenament, in a village with many other fantastic pieces of living history properties. We have set about restoring and maintaining this property, but the vibrations from trucks thundering down the road causes significant vibrations through the building and is leading to structural damage of the road substrate and the houses nearby. If we want to maintain a good flow of traffic and our historic village for the future, then this promised bypass needs to be constructed.