Letters & Opinion

READER’S LETTER: Remove car parking charges to boost town economy

READER’S LETTER: Remove car parking charges to boost town economy

Dear Editor,
Remove car parking charges, in Nantwich, for three months to stimulate the Town’s Economy.

We have been extremely fortunate that, in recent years, Nantwich has weathered challenging economic conditions.

March 3, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Cars on grass verges cause “unsightly mess”

READER’S LETTER: Cars on grass verges cause “unsightly mess”

Dear Editor,
Many grass verges in Crewe have been cut to pieces by vehicles parking on them or driving over them.

They are an unsightly mess. A blot on the landscape.

March 3, 2021
Janet Clowes, Conservative group leader

READER’S LETTER: Enforcement of planning breaches should not be “optional”

Dear Editor,

I was pleased to read of Cheshire East Council’s success last week, in securing a High Court Order against a significant incursion onto agricultural land in the Green Belt at Mobberley.

February 28, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Impact of St Anne’s Lane car park closure

READER’S LETTER: Impact of St Anne’s Lane car park closure

Dear Editor

I am writing to you, to express my concerns about the way in which the Council has handled the closure of the unofficial St Anne’s Lane car park (in Nantwich)

February 26, 2021
READER’S LETTER: No justification for Cheshire East Council Tax rises

READER’S LETTER: No justification for Cheshire East Council Tax rises

Dear Editor,
There is no justification for Council tax increases this year.

But despite that, Crewe residents will have to pay an increased Council Tax to no less than all the four authorities they are obliged in law to pay…..and in most cases the increases are many times over the rate of inflation.

February 23, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Open letter from Covid-19 survivor from Wistaston

READER’S LETTER: Open letter from Covid-19 survivor from Wistaston

Dear Editor,
I am clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) after having my spleen removed in 2002, so I’m at a massively increased risk of infection.

In February last year I had to give up my job as a supply teacher and “shield”, which has meant that for over 12 months I have severed my outside contact.

February 22, 2021
READER’S LETTER: “Outrageous” still no CEC decision on winter gritting cuts

READER’S LETTER: “Outrageous” still no CEC decision on winter gritting cuts

Dear Editor,
At this week’s Cheshire East Full Council meeting I asked, once again, if the Labour/Independent Cabinet had made up its mind regarding its proposal to axe winter gritting from some of our semi-rural and rural roads.

February 21, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Cheshire East Council budget “unkind and uncaring”

READER’S LETTER: Cheshire East Council budget “unkind and uncaring”

Dear Editor,

I did not support Cheshire East Council’s budget for the following reasons:

This budget is unkind, this budget is uncaring.

February 21, 2021
Dr Kieran Mullan

READER’S LETTER: Trade Bill vote by local MP “disgraceful”

Dear Editor,
Parliament has just voted to tie its own hands on future trade deals.

In a vote on the Trade Bill, MPs voted to drop an amendment that would have guaranteed them a vote on trade deals.

February 10, 2021
READER’S LETTER: CEC Mayor should stand aside over Handforth video

READER’S LETTER: CEC Mayor should stand aside over Handforth video

Dear Editor,

Many of our residents will have watched, read or heard about the unedifying behaviour displayed by Councillors at Handforth Parish Council which went viral last week.

February 8, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Support us in National Heart Month in February

READER’S LETTER: Support us in National Heart Month in February

Dear Editor,

To mark National Heart Month this February, I’ve teamed up with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to call on the nation to do at least one thing to improve their heart health, while raising much-needed funds for the charity’s life saving work.

February 6, 2021
Cheshire Chief Constable Darren Martland

READER’S LETTER: Cheshire Police Chief Constable salary “unjustified”

Dear Editor,
Cheshire Police are advertising for yet another new Chief Constable.

The salary is £156,693 per year. Which is nearly as much as the Prime Minister is paid for doing TWO jobs, PM and MP.

January 30, 2021
Cllr Craig Browne

READER’S LETTER: CEC receives £1.26m…but must submit successful business case

Dear Editor,

At the Environment and Regeneration Overview and Scrutiny meeting on Monday 18th January 2021, I raised the point that Cllr Craig Browne mentioned at Cabinet last week that “The Transport Ministry has confirmed that CEC’s expression of interest to the (government) rural mobility fund has been successful”.

January 21, 2021