What we do

  • Marple Civic Society

    We are a voluntary group who are proud of Marple and want to see it thrive. We believe that everyone in our community should have a voice in helping to shape the future of Marple.

    Join Us

  • Sustainable Future

    Creating an understanding of how we can achieve a sustainable future for our Town and its citizens is now at the heart of the Society`s activities.

    Sustainable Future

  • Excellence in Planning

    One of the most important activities of the Civic Society is to engage with the planning system as it formulates plans which affect our localities and as it takes decisions on planning applications

    Excellence in Planning

  • Promoting Heritage

    Heritage is the name we give to what we inherit from the past. Heritage is the memory of what has taken place, the things we did and the choices we made that appear in our present lives as traces of that past.

    Promoting Heritage

Keeping you Informed

All our recent newsletters are available here


  • Notes from the June Marple Area Committee are available here (27/5/25)
  • Notes from our discussion about volunteering, following our AGM, are available here (28/4/25)
  • Thanks to everyone who came to our AGM on Saturday 12th April. As well as the brief formal business we heard from three local organisations about what they do and how they see Marple's future. The information pack for the AGM is here to download and a report of the discussion will be in our next newsletter. (15/4/25)
  • Dates for Make it Marple are now published - we'll be there each time with our pop-up stand so drop by and have a chat! (31/1/25)
  • Thanks to everyone who came last night (12th November) and heard Kathryn Rees and Holly Raes from SMBC explain about "One Stockport: One Future", which has some great aspirations for our area up to 2040. The ensuing audience questions centred on Health and Care, not normally a topic we get much involved with, so it proved very interesting. (13/11/24)
  • Read the Civic Voice response to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 2024 consultation here (20/9/24)



Making Marple Better - Together


Everyone in Marple, residents young and old, businesses and community groups, can help to identify our challenges and offer ideas for tackling them. We believe that working together to adapt to the changing world is the way to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable community for ourselves and for future generations.


NEXT EVENTS

Our next open meeting will be on July 8th, 7.30pm upstairs at The Navigation, Stockport Road. We'll be reporting on recent discussions with the Council on the local plan, what needs doing about traffic on Church Lane and maybe some news about Compstall Mill - plus any relevant issues you care to bring along to the meeting!

Marple is a small town located on the River Goyt to the south east of Manchester, which is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester. The 'sense of place' and the kind of ‘future’ the Society would like to promote is not limited to the town of Marple but includes the surrounding areas of Marple Bridge, Ludworth, Mellor, Compstall, High Lane, Hawk Green and Strines.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Map courtesy of SMBC

USEFUL SITE LINKS

Use these website links to find our more about what's happening in Marple and national news about the civic movement.