Dear Editor,
In 2018 Crewe residents were promised a £48m Royal Arcade masterplan, a new cinema, gym, restaurants, shops, a 450 space multi storey car park and a new bus station, off Victoria Street and Queensway, by Christmas 2020.
We are now in 2023 and what have we got?
A partly built £11m, blot on the landscape, multi storey car park that nobody wants and a TEMPORARY Bus Station.
Yet more broken promises from the Labour run Cheshire East Council.
We are now in 2023, FIVE YEARS LATER, and not one brick has been laid on another.
Instead we STILL have a boarded up bomb site in the centre of the town.
And it gets worse.
The good people of Crewe are fed up to the back teeth of the broken promises and how the town has been allowed to be engulfed in a sad cycle of steep decline for many years.
It started when the Tories ran Cheshire East and nothing has changed since Labour took over the running of the Council in 2019.
The Labour MP, up to 2019, and the Tory MP since then, have done little to stop the sad deterioration of the town.
The whole plan for the town centre needs to be reconsidered because it has been clear for a long time now that what is proposed is simply not going to happen.
NONE of the long promised retail units and entertainment venues will EVER get built.
The whole project needs a radical re-think… and quickly.
Yours faithfully,
Cllr Brian Silvester
Leader #CreweFirst
You cannot imagine, Councillor Silvester, how little most people in Nantwich care about the state of Crewe town centre. You write to Nantwich News all the time about issues you should be talking to local CREWE people about like you think we’re going to give you a medal. Save youself the time moaning on here and do something useful with the extra minutes in your workday.
Well nw the promises have to be kept. The town is a right mess and the slow progress is unbelievable, and the lack of progress is another waste of time and money. The mega car park is totally unnecessary, there will not be enough shoppers to use it. The promised shops are so far away, they are in fairy land. CEC you now have to deliver on all the promised shops and other places. Always remember councilors are only there for as long as they get ‘X’ by their names, same goes for MP’s, so keep you promises and get the buildings done and make the town neat and tidy again.