https://stockporttoday.co.uk/Local news, what's on and the information you need for Stockport and the towns around it.en-GBMon, 05 Oct 2026 07:23:05 +0000https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-food-hygiene-ratings-september-2026/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-food-hygiene-ratings-september-2026/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsAll 37 Stockport food businesses rated in September scored 5. The borough has no zero-rated premises, and 10 sit on a 1: three of them in Reddish.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-creative-campus-18-19-market-place-work-starts/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-creative-campus-18-19-market-place-work-starts/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsWork has started on turning 18/19 Market Place into creative workspace, due mid-2027. The money was won in 2022; here is what the building will hold and when.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-halloween/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-halloween/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnReddish Vale Farm's pumpkin patch opens 10 October, Bramall Hall's £3 witch's trail starts on the 22nd and Merseyway's carnival on 24 October is free.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-roadworks-travel/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-roadworks-travel/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Local InfoGreat Portwood Street stays shut towards town to 27 November. M60 junction 3 exit slips close overnight on 2, 5, 6 and 7 October; M67 eastbound shut this weekend.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/weir-mill-stockport-complete-253-homes/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/weir-mill-stockport-complete-253-homes/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsThe £60m restoration of the 1790 mill under the viaduct is complete: 253 rented homes, six independents, and a free WEIR:LIVE party on Saturday 3 October.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/woodley-precinct-closure-order-brothel/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/woodley-precinct-closure-order-brothel/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsPolice shut a Woodley Precinct property for three months after saying it was used as a brothel. It is the latest of seven closure orders in Woodley since February.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/cheadle-station-work-starts/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/cheadle-station-work-starts/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsHighway work and trial holes start this week at the new Cheadle station site. What unblocked it and what is still open for Ashley and Plumley.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-crematorium-new-cremators-refurbishment/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-crematorium-new-cremators-refurbishment/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsStockport Council has named the firm to install new cremators at Buxton Road, part of a £14m, four-phase refurbishment planned to keep funerals running.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/cheadle-hulme-vc-james-kirk-medals-auction/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/cheadle-hulme-vc-james-kirk-medals-auction/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsThe Victoria Cross won by Adswood-born James Kirk a week before the Armistice goes under the hammer in London on 7 October, estimated at around £160,000.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/whats-on-stockport-this-month/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/whats-on-stockport-this-month/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnBlossoms play the Plaza on 15 October and Reddish Vale's pumpkin patch opens on the 10th. Bramhall, Marple and Reddish Vale fireworks are on sale for November.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/jacksons-lane-160-homes-approved/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/jacksons-lane-160-homes-approved/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsCouncillors voted 9 in favour of 160 Green Belt homes at Jacksons Lane, Hazel Grove, weeks after the area committee said refuse. What happens next.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/brinnington-operation-vulcan-boxing-football-kit/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/brinnington-operation-vulcan-boxing-football-kit/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000News£1,000 of boxing kit and 50 footballs for Brinnington youth sport, paid from the High Sheriff's Trust by GMP's Operation Vulcan, seven months into its stay.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-traffic-enforcement-cameras-cheadle-hazel-grove/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-traffic-enforcement-cameras-cheadle-hazel-grove/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsCameras going up this week will fine drivers for a banned turn in Cheadle and a yellow box in Hazel Grove. First offences get a warning for six months.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/tour-de-france-femmes-trophy-stockport-3-4-october/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/tour-de-france-femmes-trophy-stockport-3-4-october/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSee the Tour de France Femmes trophy free at Weir Mill on Saturday 3 October and Merseyway on Sunday 4 October, 300 days before the race comes through Stockport.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/little-giggles-nursery-edgeley-carnival-for-a-cause/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/little-giggles-nursery-edgeley-carnival-for-a-cause/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsAn Edgeley nursery planned a carnival in under two weeks and raised £2,379.09 for Cancer Research UK. Now its families are filling bags for two food banks.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-remembrance-sunday/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-remembrance-sunday/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnRemembrance Sunday 2026 is 8 November. Stockport's civic service is at the War Memorial Art Gallery at 11am; Armistice Day falls on Wednesday 11 November.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-new-years-eve/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-new-years-eve/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnStockport has no public New Year's Eve event or fireworks. The nearest free display is Manchester's at midnight, and the 192 night bus runs on Thursday nights.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-santas-grotto/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-santas-grotto/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnReddish Vale Farm's North Pole grotto opens 29 November to 24 December. Merseyway's free grotto has no 2026 dates yet; last year's came out on 2 November.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/lyme-park-christmas/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/lyme-park-christmas/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnLyme Park Christmas 2026: the house is dressed as The World at Christmas, 27 Nov to 24 Dec, last entry 3pm. Entry £19 adult; festive tea £30.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/bramall-hall-christmas/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/bramall-hall-christmas/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnBramall Hall is dressed for Christmas and ran a £3 elf trail Thursday to Sunday last December. Entry is £7, under-16s free; closed on bank holidays.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/bramhall-high-school-46m-rebuild-contract/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/bramhall-high-school-46m-rebuild-contract/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsWillmott Dixon starts on site in October, the new building opens in August 2028 and the site is clear in 2029. The school is still £650,000 short for desks.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/robinsons-130-pints-stockport-pubs/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/robinsons-130-pints-stockport-pubs/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnRobinsons pours Unicorn at £1.30 a pint on Saturday 26 September, and 34 pubs on its list are in Stockport borough. Here is every one, and the catch.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-claimant-count-august-2026/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-claimant-count-august-2026/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsStockport's claimant count hit 5,550 in August and under-25s are 85 of the 100 annual rise. At 3.0%, the rate is still the lowest in Greater Manchester.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-house-prices-july-2026/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-house-prices-july-2026/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsStockport's average home reached £317,913 in July, up £12,734 in a year and rising almost four times as fast as England. Terraces led, flats did not.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-local-plan-consultation-opens/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-local-plan-consultation-opens/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsCabinet approved the plan on 15 September. Comments run 23 September to 8 November, and only soundness and legal compliance count at this stage.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/outside-the-box-bramhall-board-games-cafe/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/outside-the-box-bramhall-board-games-cafe/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsAbout 40 of the 100 people through Outside The Box in a typical week arrive on their own. Rachel Eade on leaving a finance directorship to open it.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-planning-committee-national-delegation/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-planning-committee-national-delegation/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsFrom 31 October, Stockport councillors lose the power to call in planning applications, and objections alone will no longer force a committee hearing.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/weir-mill-weir-live-free-party-3-october/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/weir-mill-weir-live-free-party-3-october/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnWEIR:LIVE runs 11.30am to 10pm on Saturday 3 October at Weir Mill on Chestergate. Free, no tickets needed, two stages, a family rave, and an all-Stockport bill.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-local-plan-24253-homes-consultation/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/stockport-local-plan-24253-homes-consultation/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsStockport's final Local Plan goes to Cabinet on 15 September: 24,253 homes to 2042, 8,689 of them on Green Belt land. Comments run 23 September to 8 November.https://stockporttoday.co.uk/heritage-open-days-stockport-2026/https://stockporttoday.co.uk/heritage-open-days-stockport-2026/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnStockport's free Heritage Open Days run 12 to 20 September. Abney Hall and the Stockport Stroll are full, St Martin's is cancelled, and ten need no booking.