Marple is rated as one of best places to escape to the countryside v

[sooty2]

It is what you have written that is a contradiction. Read it, if you don't get it, ask somebody to explain. I have no comment to make about affordable housing.

[amazon]

Perhaps some affordable housing will appear somewhere along Hibbert Lane?

It won't be affordable if it does ..

This is a massive contradiction

Had a feeling you would disagree mrs o . We don't want housing we need a supermarket .whats the point of having houses when there's no supermarket to shop at .have you Seen  that mess they have built at cherry tree romiley the ones on the corner they are affordable housing with a warden . The others are not to bad looking . if that's what you want in marple ok

[RWW]

Glad for Marple getting some recognition

Then they'll have to do what many before them have had to do Barbara, move out and live in a place that they can afford to live in until they can afford to live in Marple, then they can come back if they wish. Young people don't have a right to live here, or anywhere for that matter just because their parents live/d here.   

Who exactly is this disregard for the young helping?
Why not build some affordable housing in Marple?(and no £250,000 is not affordable)

[simonesaffron]

I agree with them both, Marple and Stockport are good places to be in 2013.

It's just that the compliment seems a little back-handed when proffered by both The Sunday Times AND The Daily Mail.

[sooty2]

Perhaps some affordable housing will appear somewhere along Hibbert Lane?

It won't be affordable if it does ..

This is a massive contradiction

[admin]

Now the Daily Mail is reporting that Stockport has the second highest score for resident contentment and illustrates it with a picture of the Memorial Park.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299640/The-happiest-place-Britain-Harrogate-Residents-North-Yorkshire-town-satisfied-live.html

It is interesting to note that the image picked out to represent Stockport in this article is a photograph of Marple Memorial Park's flowerbeds. These are the very beds that the council planned to grass over two years ago and the Friends of the Park had to stop them - literally as they were starting to do it - and we had to adopt and plant them up ourselves.

What lengths will the Friends have to go to in order to stop the cuts proposed for 2014/15?

Proposals that include:

·NO LONGER EMPLOYING PEOPLE WITH HORTICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE to look after flowerbeds, trees, shrubs and parkland.
·REMOVING instead of repairing or replacing broken play equipment.
·REMOVING instead of repairing or replacing broken fencing, seating, signage, and other street furniture.
·Picking up litter in parks NO MORE THAN once per week.
·Fewer staff based at specific parks (will impact Marple Memorial Park)
·REMOVING SUPPORT to Friends of Park Groups, like us, leaving the community to try and pick up the pieces and fight off the decay.

How much longer will photos of Memorial Park be chosen to represent the borough?

Please make sure you have your say here:

http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/councildemocracy/yourcouncil/haveyoursay/programmeforchange/parkandopenspaces/

[thebigshed]

Now the Daily Mail is reporting that Stockport has the second highest score for resident contentment and illustrates it with a picture of the Memorial Park.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299640/The-happiest-place-Britain-Harrogate-Residents-North-Yorkshire-town-satisfied-live.html

[Cyberman]

Was there a "Best for Traffic Jams"?  Marple would probably do well there too.

[Howard]

You can see the articles here:

[Harry]

The article included a number of 'Best places to live' categories. These included best for Schools, Culture, Outdoors, Starry skies, Families, Golf, Food and Best of the Rest.

Marple was included in the Best for Outdoors list. The full list for this category was:

1. Beaulieu, Hampshire
2. Brecon, Powys
3. Chagford, Devon
4. Dedham, Essex
5. Fogey, Cornwall
6. Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire
7. Grassington, North Yorkshire
8. Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
9. Marple
10. Matlock, Derbyshire
11. Penrith, Cumbria
12. Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
13. Rothbury, Northumberland
14. St David's, Pembrokeshire
15. Santon Downham, Suffolk
16. Tiree, Inner Hebrides

[Deniseam]

Does anyone know what the other places were in the list.  We don't get the Sunday Times.

[amazon]

Perhaps some affordable housing will appear somewhere along Hibbert Lane?

They are building some now on the old Peacefield School site.

What's that to do with Hibbert lane .

[the rover]

Perhaps some affordable housing will appear somewhere along Hibbert Lane?

They are building some now on the old Peacefield School site.

[amazon]

Perhaps some affordable housing will appear somewhere along Hibbert Lane?

It won't be affordable if it does ..

[Cyberman]

Perhaps some affordable housing will appear somewhere along Hibbert Lane?