Communications funding is needed

Dear Sir,

Though I am sure Cheshire East are outsourcing various functions for good reasons, mostly financial it does come at a cost if not well managed.

One example is your article in last week's Chronicle, p43 on the poor warning of the closure of Buxton Road for 10 hours, albeit on a Sunday.

Cheshire East will presumably provide the informing infrastructure for road closures while other companies are doing the work, in this case inspecting a bridge.

This means that there must be excellent communicating between the different bodies, something that is not always achieved.

I suggest that when such companies are formed, there is reserve financing for such measures so that when budgets are stretched, it can still be funded.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Peter Hirst

Middlewich