Environment

ANPR cameras to target unsafe school parking

ANPR cameras to target unsafe school parking

Nantwich schools could soon have ANPR cameras outside to target bad or illegal parking by parents.

A ‘Safe haven’ parking pilot scheme is set to be trialled outside four schools in Cheshire East.

February 17, 2025
Nantwich Environmental Task Force to stage clean up

Nantwich Environmental Task Force to stage clean up

Nantwich Environmental Task force will be back in action on Sunday (February 16) revitalizing a neglected allotment at Brookfield.

They are making the area ready for new growers to grow fresh veg, fruit and flowers in the Spring.

February 14, 2025
Roadworks end at one Stapeley junction – and start at another

Roadworks end at one Stapeley junction – and start at another

A four-week programme of roadworks at one of Nantwich’s busiest junctions was finally completed today.

And signs erected earlier this week which suggested the works at the junction of Elwood Way and Newcastle Road would be extended by four weeks appear to have been “inaccurate”.

February 14, 2025
Nantwich wins top county award for ” Best Kept Station”

Nantwich wins top county award for ” Best Kept Station”

Nantwich Railway Station has been named Cheshire’s Best Kept Station at the Cheshire Best Kept Stations Awards.

And nearby Wrenbury Station five minutes down the line won the Art Project Award.

February 14, 2025
Poultry keepers in South Cheshire warned over bird flu

Poultry keepers in South Cheshire warned over bird flu

Poultry keepers in South Cheshire are being warned to keep their birds indoors under new Avian Influenza restrictions from Sunday.

Cheshire will fall under avian influenza prevention zone (AIPZ) housing measures from February 16, along with Merseyside, Herefordshire, Lancashire and Worcestershire.

February 14, 2025
Muller Property seeks to build 133 new homes in Audlem

Muller Property seeks to build 133 new homes in Audlem

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Muller Property Group is looking to submit a planning application for approximately 133 homes in Audlem.

Muller wants to build the homes on land to the west of Moorsfield Avenue.

February 14, 2025
Nantwich councillors back plan for trial closure of town centre roads

Nantwich councillors back plan for trial closure of town centre roads

Nantwich Town councillors have agreed to plans for a “soft closure” of two key town centre roads for a day.

The idea to close Pillory Street and Hospital Street is to allow for studies on the impact it has on air pollution, local business, pedestrian footfall.

February 13, 2025
Cheshire East admits “issues” with A500 surface dressing works

Cheshire East admits “issues” with A500 surface dressing works

Highways bosses at Cheshire East Council have finally admitted there are “issues” with the surface dressing along the A500 Shavington Bypass.

It follows hundreds of complaints from motorists about loose gravel smashing windscreens and denting vehicles since the works were done last summer.

February 13, 2025
Sign earlier in week at Elwood Way junction

Nantwich roadworks causing major delays set to be extended by four weeks

A programme of roadworks causing major delays at one of Nantwich’s busiest junctions looks set to be extended by another FOUR weeks.

Works have been taking place at the junction of Newcastle Road and Elwood Way since January 20.

February 12, 2025
“Pride of Romany” Historic England project launched in Nantwich

“Pride of Romany” Historic England project launched in Nantwich

A new Historic England project has been launched in Nantwich to celebrate and preserve the British Romany community.

The Atchin Tan Heritage Project, Pride of Romany has been awarded £23,000 from Historic England’s 2025 grants programme.

February 10, 2025
Plans for electrical substation to power new Leighton Hospital

Plans for electrical substation to power new Leighton Hospital

Leighton Hospital chiefs have submitted a planning application to Cheshire East Council to build an electrical substation on land just off Flowers Lane in Crewe.

The proposed substation will provide power to the site of the planned new hospital, located to the north of the existing Leighton Hospital.

February 6, 2025
Anger grows over potholes as readers launch new group

Anger grows over potholes as readers launch new group

Fed-up residents across South Cheshire have been signing up to a new Facebook group to highlight the growing danger of potholes on the borough’s roads.

In just a few days the new Facebook group – called Cheshire East Pot Hole Surveillance – had attracted more than 700 people

February 3, 2025
CEC highways chiefs decline interview to explain state of our roads

CEC highways chiefs decline interview to explain state of our roads

Highways bosses at Cheshire East Council have declined an interview to explain the current situation with the borough’s crumbling road network.

But in a statement, they claim the extra £21 million allocated to CEC by the Government would be no where enough to fix the borough’s potholes.

January 31, 2025