Dear Editor,
Cheshire East are planning to close and build housing on two of the main car parks in Crewe town centre, Delamere Street and Chester Street.
The lost car parking spaces will be replaced by a six-storey 390 place car park, on the Royal Arcade development site in the town centre, costing Cheshire East taxpayers a huge £11,315,315.
Dear Editor
At December’s Full Council meeting Council Leader Sam Corcoran used his “Leader Speaking Time” to bewail rising risks, demand for care services and rising inflation and predicting £20m shortfalls in next year’s budget.
Dear Editor,
More than 6,800 people in the UK are spending the festive season/start of 2023 waiting for an organ transplant – and over 220 of these patients are children*.
These mums, dads, wives, husbands, partners, daughters, sons can only be saved by someone giving them the greatest gift, the gift of life.
Dear Editor,
I am a member of Everybody Leisure and I regularly attend classes at the Nantwich leisure centre.
Unfortunately, classes are being cut to save money on what would seem to be random criteria.
Dear Editor,
Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer, and one of the greatest health challenges facing society.
Earlier this year the UK Government announced a ‘visionary’ 10-year Plan for Dementia, aiming to increase diagnosis and support people with their health and care needs.
Dear Editor,
‘Putting Crewe First’ made a Freedom of Information request about the financing of Crewe Market Hall.
Cheshire East Council is refusing to state what subsidy the Market Hall receives, if any, from the Council taxpayer.
Dear Editor,
On average there is a report of a flood or a blocked gullie in Crewe every working day.
Because of that, Crewe has more road and footpath flooding than anywhere else in Cheshire East.
Dear Editor,
We are slowly being drip fed by the news that Council Tax nationally might have larger increases with the removal of some manifesto promises plus a reduction of some services.
Dear Editor,
Action by ‘Putting Crewe First’ has ensured that a missing ‘Welcome to Crewe’ sign will be replaced in a few weeks.
The ‘Welcome to Crewe’ road sign on Nantwich Road went missing in February.
Dear Editor
I read Cllr Sam Corcoran’s recent letter to the borough’s wider press, with some incredulity, particularly with regard to planning matters.
He expounds that the “flood of speculative housing applications in Cheshire East when the Conservatives were in charge has now dried up”, releasing his letter in conjunction with the CE media release this week, confirming that the Inspector has approved Part 2 of the Local Plan (SADPD as it’s also referred to).
Dear Editor,
There were 4,321 incidents of fly-tipping in Cheshire East in the year ending April 2021. That is compared to 1,377 in 2013.
An increase of over 300% There were 541 enforcement actions taken in the year ending April 2021, compared to 764 in 2013, a REDUCTION in enforcements of almost 30%.
Dear Editor,
On the BBC text site overnight, it was reported that Electricity cost 4p per unit more in North Wales, Cheshire and parts of Merseyside (the old MANWEB area).
In our area we pay 36p per unit, with 34p being an average and 32p in the lowest parts of the Country.
Dear Editor,
Cheshire Police are encouraging people to report ‘Hate Crime’.
“A hate incident is any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.”
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