Nantwich Town councillors have agreed to pay £22,000 to keep the town’s library open for an extra half day.
But a debate at last night’s town council meeting descended into a political row over the issue.
Hard-working staff at RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre are rehabilitating eight orphaned seal pups.
The centre on London Road in Nantwich had braced itself for a surge in intake of baby seals at the start of the traditional seal season.
This shocking picture shows the amount of rubbish dumped by members of the public on a Nantwich supermarket car park.
The image was taken by a reader who was stunned at the mounds of garbage next to the Sainsbury’s supermarket recycling area.
The controversial Cheshire East subscription service for collecting garden waste will open in October ahead of the planned launch in January.
Residents who are willing to pay £56 a year for green waste collections from January will be able to register from October 2.
Visitors who came from as far away as Swindon have heaped praise after another hugely successful Nantwich Food Festival.
Organisers have been delighted by the feedback from many who travelled to the town to experience the three-day event, with crowds across the three days reaching around 40,000.
The new skate park has opened at Barony Park in Nantwich after a campaign lasting several years.
And it took funds from a charity based in Norfolk to help fund the project.
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.
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