The Mottram Bypass is Finally Approved (2014).
Mottram will finally, after almost FIFTY years get its bypass!
On 2 December 2014, the government announced that it will be investing £170m on the A57, A628 and A628 trans-Pennine route, including a long-awaited bypass for the village of Mottram-in-Longdendale that residents have been campaigning for, for decades.
We even had Nick Clegg walking about Mottram a few days ago. Didn’t notice? Us neither. But every little helps.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has just [December 2014] given the go-ahead for an initial scheme of at least £170 million to resolve the traffic issue through Mottram and to build a link road to Glossop.… Click here to continue reading this article