KNUTSFORD'S politicians want to give pedestrianisation another chance. (From Warrington Guardian)

KNUTSFORD'S politicians want to give pedestrianisation another chance.

Clr Tony Mazzeo, who is chairman of the town's planning committee, is canvassing local colleagues to revive the scheme - sensationally scuppered in December.

He said, so far, not one of the town's six councillors had said they would oppose the move - making it almost certain that the plan will come back to the negotiation table.

"This is what should have happened before," he said.

Clr Mazzeo said local councillors were unhappy when the highways committee abandoned the scheme despite half of the town's residents, who returned a council survey, voting for pedestrianisation.

Plumley councillor Sue Kipling, sitting in for an unwell Clr Wilson Hamman, moved that the scheme should be axed outright.

The rest of the committee - all non-Knutsford councillors - agreed, apparently killing off the scheme for good.

On Monday two Conservative councillors, Jan Verney and Wilson Hamman, were still undecided about how they would vote at Macclesfield Town Hall on January 28.

But the rest, Tory Doug Page, Liberal Democrat Bob Ingham and Labour councillor Martin Smith, have said they would support Clr Mazzeo's move.

It's expected that the council will agree with whatever Knutsford's councillors propose in what is seen as a strictly local issue.

"The panel asked for it to be looked at again with the town council and look at the objections to see if we can overcome them," said Clr Mazzeo.

"And also alter the plan to make it better for the people."

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