By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
No schools in Cheshire East are affected by the current RAAC concrete fears across the UK, officials have confirmed.
Cheshire East Council says it has carried out checks on its maintained schools and said there is no evidence they contain the concrete type which has led to fears of buildings suddenly collapsing.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A new office development for Nantwich has been “slapped down” every time it comes forward despite no parish councils or residents ever objecting to it, a councillor said.
Willaston councillor Allen Gage (Con) was speaking just before Cheshire East’s southern planning committee again refused an application to build on land off the Alvaston Roundabout.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans for a small pet and horse crematorium near Nantwich have been given the go-ahead by Cheshire East councillors.
Cheshire East’s southern planning committee had earlier this month deferred the application to use a rural outbuilding at Doddington Mill House, off Mill Lane in Doddington, for the cremations.
Award-winning campaign group Sustainable Nantwich is calling on Food Festival goers to say no to plastic this weekend.
Tens of thousands of people are set to descend on the town over the next three days for the popular annual event.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is expected to make a decision next month on a 263-home estate in Crewe which is being lived in but doesn’t have planning permission.
The recently built Coppenhall Place, on the site of the former Crewe Works off West Street, was granted planning permission in 2018.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is still looking into how much privately-owned green land it has been maintaining at the council tax payers’ expense – but says a report is due next month.
The council’s environment and communities committee was told in October last year the authority had been maintaining 547 parcels of land not registered as being owned by the council.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Residents with smaller black household waste bins will have to pay for a larger one if they need it after Cheshire East introduces the new garden bin collection charge.
The £56 garden waste charge, which is due to be introduced in January, will inevitably result in an increase in rubbish dumped in black bins.
A team of budding florists from Reaseheath College in Nantwich are to compete in a student competition at the Interflora World Cup in Manchester in September.
The team of three, studying Level 4 Higher Diploma in Floristry, will showcase their skills at the Manchester Central Exhibition Complex on Saturday September 9 in a bid to be crowned Interflora’s Student Team of the Year.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
An application for a pet and horse crematorium near Nantwich has again been recommended for approval following a deferral for more information.
Georgina Carter wants to use a rural outbuilding at Doddington Mill House, off Mill Lane in Doddington, for the cremations.
A young Nantwich man is to achieve his goal of opening his own family-run Pizza restaurant in the town centre!
Jordan Hassall has been running Jordy’s Pizza business since 2015, starting as a mobile caterer.
Councillors have been advised to refuse plans to build six new office blocks with car parking and access at a site in Nantwich.
Applicants want to erect the new office development on land North of Alvaston Roundabout on Middlewich Road.
Council plans to enhance the leisure, training, and spectator facilities at South Cheshire’s athletics venue Cumberland Arena have been approved.
The Everybody Health and Leisure scheme will extend and adapt the venue on Thomas Street in Crewe.
Bosses at Cheshire East Council have refused a request to revisit the controversial Green Waste Charges set to be brought in from January, say Conservative councillors.
The Conservative Group on Cheshire East had officially referred the decision made at Environment & Communities Committee decision to implement Green Waste Charges to full council.
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