M6 Smart Motorway Extension

Yes you read that right the wonderful highways agency are spending a 100 million pounds to trial options of reducing pollution. Why are they spending 100 milion on this feasibility study? yet we can’t have a noise absorbing fence along this section of motorway and it...

We had a very productive meeting yesterday the 13th july with the representatives from Tilon the fence manufacturing company that Highways England gave the details of after the previous meeting. The picture shows a small sample of the noise reducing fence that they...

Residents met with Mr Andrew Brown from Highways England to discuss ongoing noise and pollution problems

As some of you will know the question was raised could the contractors plant a line of conifers along the M6 to help control sound pollution and given that the Nox levels are rising both on oak tree lane and Northwich road shown by the data collected and that...

We have recently received these two letters from Fiona Bruce MP in relation to the smart motorway works and the continuing noise and pollution in the Cranage neighborhood! Letter 1 Letter 2 The all party commons comiittee for transport has stated that all smart...

With the recent shake up in the government, you have probably noticed that Chris Grayling MP is now heading up the Transport department, were asking all residents who are affected by the constant noise and pollution to write letters to him so he knows the local...

In the week that they can approve the somewhat absurb cost of replacing the Trident nuclear missile system which will come to at least £205bn, far more than previously estimated, according to figures drawn up by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).  (but that's...

Further to the article in the sandbach chronicle last week, its content was not entirely correct, The meeting referred to was called by highways England for Cranage parish councillors to attend to be given an update on progress of the scheme, the general public were...

A new report today tells MP's to scrap the plan to turn hard shoulders in to a permanent motorway lane! Plans to convert more hard shoulders into permanent driving lanes to ease motorway congestion should be scrapped, a Commons committee has said. The government...

Further to the recent report that was published recently about the meeting held by highways and cranage parish council members. We have requested Fiona Bruce to lobby the minister responsible again on residents behalf, which she agreed to do. Recently we contacted...