By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is refusing to discuss in public how much it spends on individual car parks and how much income it receives from them.
The council, which says it is ‘open and fair’ in its corporate plan, was asked by two members of its own highways and transport committee for a breakdown on the car parks.
Nantwich Food Festival is to fund the use of town centre car parks to house the food courts for this year’s event, organisers have confirmed.
The use of the Love Lane and Bowling Green car parks is an essential feature of the three-day festival, as they host the marquees and performance areas.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans for up to 29 holiday lodges at a marina site near Nantwich have been recommended for approval.
Church Minshull Aqueduct Marina Limited wants to change the use of agricultural land so the lodges and a manager’s cabin can be provided on the site, which is on the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.
A Nantwich couple who moved to Bulgaria to run a dog rescue shelter, have now re-homed more than 500 badly treated pooches.
Clair Steele and her partner Neil were so moved by the plight of dogs over there they made a life-changing decision.
The Canal & River Trust has unveiled a new free guide to “Places to Visit in the North West” including several in South Cheshire.
It has maps, information about visitor facilities and free activities, and ways to get the most out of visiting the region’s canals and rivers.
Police have been given extra powers to deal with disorder ahead of the Crewe Alexandra v Port Vale football match tomorrow (March 29).
Officers in Crewe say increased powers will help them keep football fans from both sides “safe” before the game begins to the final whistle and getting home.
Motorists in Nantwich and Crewe face paying for car parking until 10pm on Cheshire East Council car parks from May.
And they will also have to pay to park on Sundays when it is currently free.
Cheshire firefighters have teamed up with others across the UK to deliver vital firefighting equipment to Ukraine.
A total of 30 fire and rescue vehicles, along with more than 15,000 pieces of essential equipment, are being donated by UK fire and rescue services in partnership with charity FIRE AID and the National Fire Chiefs Council.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter.
Plans for a solar farm near Nantwich which could supply energy to more than 6,500 homes a year have been unanimously approved.
Noventum Power Ltd wants to construct and operate the solar farm on a 17.5-hectare site in the open countryside at Hatherton Lodge Farm, off Hunsterson Road.
This is the spectacular scene in the skies above Nantwich earlier this week as the Northern Lights once again put on a show.
Mark Griffiths captured this image of the Aurora Borealis above Paddington Bear sculpture at Snugburys, just outside Nantwich off the A51.
Muller Property Group has opened a public consultation on its plans to build 127 new homes on land in Audlem.
The developer says their proposal will “help alleviate the local housing shortage in Cheshire East”.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The nightmare is finally over for hundreds of residents who have been living on a South Cheshire housing estate with no planning permission because of massive failings by Cheshire East Council and developer Countryside Partnerships.
Countryside was given permission to build the 263-home Coppenhall Place on the former Bombardier site in Crewe in 2018.
Sustainable Nantwich and Nantwich Bookshop have teamed up to help recycle piles of used pill packets.
Drug blister packs are made of a composite of plastic and aluminium foil which they say is very difficult to recycle.
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