Key players from the region’s railway industry are meeting in South Cheshire to outline the benefits of the proposed HS2 North West hub station at Crewe.
And it comes on the same day Chancellor George Osborne visited Bentley in Crewe to further outline the impact of his Autumn statement on the economy.
Opposition councillors have blasted Conservative-led Cheshire East Council over the growing number of housing appeal losses.
New figures show Cheshire East has lost a staggering 29 appeals in 2014 alone – four times the number they lost in 2012.
Reaseheath College florist Anna Eite is officially the most talented floristry student in Britain!
Anna, from Acton, Nantwich, has scooped gold at the WorldSkills UK national finals.
Cheshire East Council bosses have defended the £3.7 million spent on the Local Plan which has taken more than five years to put together.
Critics have attacked the authority for spending the amount after a planning inspector criticised the Plan for not addressing housing supply needs.
A housing developer wants to build another 118 homes on a farmland in Nantwich – just days after Cheshire East Council’s Local Plan was kicked into touch by an inspector.
Now furious councillors and residents are preparing for another fight to stop the latest proposals for land off Queens Drive.
Minimum pricing and a night time levy on Nantwich’s bars and clubs are being considered by police to crackdown on alcohol-related crime.
Cheshire’s Police & Crime Commissioner John Dwyer said both ideas are being looked at as viable options.
Nantwich residents are being warned that household green waste is about to be suspended for the winter.
Cheshire East Council say the suspension between December 8 and February 13 (inclusive) will save taxpayers money.
Furious opposition councillors have called for Cheshire East Council heads to roll after figures revealed £3.7 million has been spent on the authority’s flawed Local Plan.
And the first casualty was unveiled today, as Cllr David Brown who has overseen the Plan since 2010 announced he is stepping aside.
A campaigner fighting to keep developers away from Stapeley and Nantwich says Cheshire East’s Local Plan delay will “inevitably lead” to more unsuitable developments.
Pat Cullen, who runs Protect Stapeley, has blasted council staff for failing after five years to get the Local Plan adopted.
Council chiefs hope to open a new site to stop illegal traveller camps setting up in Nantwich and other areas.
More than 75 illegal camps have been reported across Cheshire East this year, with one recently on Barony Park in Nantwich.
A damning report by a Planning Inspector has told Cheshire East Council its long-awaited Local Plan is still not good enough to be adopted.
The blow, described as “regrettable” by council chiefs, was delivered by an inspector giving his “interim views” on the Plan’s soundness and legal compliance.
A team of volunteers have clubbed together to adopt a section of canal near Nantwich.
Members of Shropshire Union Middlewich Branch Adopters (SUMBA) have adopted a five and a half mile stretch of the canal from Barbridge in Nantwich to Church Minshull.
Parking charges on council-run car parks in Nantwich will be scrapped on three Saturdays before Christmas.
The move is designed to boost trade in Nantwich during the peak festive shopping period.
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