An effective way of making yourself heard is to raise any objections or concerns you have with your local MP and councillors, and directly with the Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling. If these people don't hear from you, they will assume that everything is just dandy and that a bypass is the solution that everyone wants.

Names and addresses are provided below, to get you started.

Now you can contact your local councillor and your MP via the new website Write To Them. Simply type your postcode into the search field, click on the name of the person you wish to contact from the search results page, and follow the instructions provided on the site.

Write to Councillors

Longdendale

Sean Parker-Perry (Lab) 143 Mottram Moor
Hollingworth
SK14 8LZ
Tel: 01457 765580
E-mail: lesley.larkin@tameside.gov.uk
(mark the Subject "FAO: Councillor Perry")

Peter Bibby (Lab) 19 Summerbottom
Broadbottom
Hyde
SK14 6BP
Tel: 01457 763758
E-mail: lesley.larkin@tameside.gov.uk
(mark the Subject "FAO: Councillor Bibby")

Roy Oldham (Lab) 8 Back Moor
Mottram
S K14 6LF
Tel: 01457 762461
E-mail: susan.williams@tameside.gov.uk
(mark the Subject "FAO: Councillor R. Oldham")

Visit the Tameside Metropolitan Burrough Council website for a full lists of local councillors in other boroughs of the region.

Glossop

John Anthony Bull
(Glossop South) 97 Gladstone Street
Glossop
Derbyshire
SK13 8NE
Tel: 01457 867958
Email: John.Bull@derbyshire.gov.uk

Dave Wilcox
(Glossop West) 27 Green Lane
Hadfield
Glossop
Derbyshire SK13 2DT Tel: 01457 853415
Email: dave.wilcox@derbyshire.gov.uk

Roger Wilkinson
(Glossop East) 31 Blackshaw Road
Glossop
Derbyshire
SK13 7SN Tel: 01457 866531
Email: roger.wilkinson@derbyshire.gov.uk

Details of members of the High Peak Borough Council, are available on the web, here. (Cllr. McKeown who runs this website has a guestbook that is just crying out for comments!)

Contact your MP

Either write to them directly, or send a fax. Visit www.faxyourMP.com and enter your postcode, or:

For Stalybridge & Hyde, contact:

Rt Hon James Purnell
MP for Stalybridge and Hyde
House Of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

For Glossop, contact:

Rt Hon Tom Levitt
MP for High Peak
House Of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Don't know who your MP is? Enter your postcode here to find out.
Want to know more about your MP? Try theyworkforyou.com.

Write to the Transport Secretary

Alistair Darling
The Secretary of State for Transport
The Palace of Westminster
London WC1