Local residents may be aware of the United Utilities proposal to build a giant new water pipeline between Bury and Merseyside. The proposed route for the pipeline passes through (well, underneath) Walkden and I have a meeting next Tuesday (16th September) with representatives from UU to discuss any potential impact that it may have on local residents in the construction phase.
If anyone has any comments, questions or issues they’d like me to raise as a local Councillor about the proposals, please leave a comment on this post or get in touch.
Always an interesting meeting with our friends at UU. Be gratefull if you could enquire about any knock on effects for the surrounding areas.
The maps says they’re going to cross the A6 using an open trench. I want to find out what that means exactly as it sounds like it’s going to cause traffic chaos during construction. Although as we know from the Council’s proposals for St George’s there is very little traffic between Walkden and Swinton of a morning… *rolls eyes*