Top classical harpist Lousia Duggan is in Nantwich this week to help celebrate the blossoming success of the town’s Growing Health Community Garden.
The community garden, based at Brookfield Allotments, is a tranquil and fully accessible flower filled green space built by volunteers.
Flooding problems plaguing a Nantwich allotments site is likely to be being caused by a school field, a report states.
Allotment holders at the Brookfield site have been hit by floods over a number of years, with the worst occurring in January after Storm Christoph.
Allotment holders and NHS specialists have unveiled plans to develop and open a Nantwich Community Health and Therapy Garden.
The garden would be located at Brookfield Allotments in the town, and be used by health experts to prescribe to those with mental health symptoms.
A Nantwich resident is calling for reduced allotment opening hours to help limit disturbance to his family.
Andrew Spanton, who lives next to Brookfield Allotments, also told Nantwich Town Council he had been in a dispute over the use of bonfires on the site.
Nantwich Concert Band has moved to a new home in the town after striking a chord with players from across South Cheshire.
The growing group is now staging weekly Wednesday rehearsals in the school hall at Highfields Academy, Cumberland Avenue, after out-growing its old base at Brookfield Hall, Shrewbridge Road.
Two councils are still bogged down in a 12-month legal battle over who should resolve flooded allotments in Nantwich.
As allotment tenants at the Brookfield site highlight their battle with swamped plots, Nantwich Town Council and Cheshire East Council remain at loggerheads.
Allotment gardeners in Nantwich are spending a third winter under water – because two councils are arguing over who should fund repairs to a burst drain.
More than 20 plots on the site between Brookfield Park and Park Road, are flooded out again.
Would-be gardeners in Nantwich are literally losing the plot – amid a council crackdown on absent allotment holders.
Nantwich Town councillors are targeting a ‘growing’ problem with tenants who have ‘bean’ neglecting their sites.
A popular golf club near Nantwich is set to close down this week after its owners confirmed they are selling the venue.
Members of Brookfield Golf Club at Hankelow, off the A529, have been told the club will close after September 5.
Care home staff in Nantwich have helped to raise more than £200 for Alzheimer’s Society.
Brookfield House Care Home, of Shrewbridge Road, was rocked last year when resident Roy Tomlinson walked out and was found dead six days later in an outbuilding.
Green-fingered gardeners in Nantwich are calling on the next generation to help them plant seeds for a brighter future for the town, by designing a logo to get more people digging in.
Brookfield Allotment Association, which represents more than 100 allotment holders in the town, wants youngsters to help redraw the image of allotmenteers.
Willing Nantwich Litter Group volunteers have been out in force again to clean up after the town’s litter louts. Working in small teams, 21 volunteers filled an incredible 22 binbags of rubbish in just one hour.
Nantwich Litter Group is on the hunt for more volunteers to help out on a “group pick” day. Members are meeting on Wednesday May 9 from 10am at Brookfield Car Park to help clear away litter in parts of the town.
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