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.
Environment
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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
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.
Plans to scrap or cut back CCTV service are ditched by CEC
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter.
Cheshire East Council has scrapped plans to consult on proposals to axe or reduce its CCTV service.
But the authority is to ask Cheshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner and other partners to help fund it.
Nantwich Market “highly commended” as UK title goes to Shrewsbury
Nantwich’s historic market was beaten by Shrewsbury to the title of Britain’s favourite market.
Nantwich had been shortlisted in the top 10 in the country in the “Great British Market Awards”.
Cheshire East “working hard” to make roads safe, says highways chair
Cheshire East Council is “working hard to make roads safe”, claimed a council leader today.
It comes after many motorists flooded us with complaints about the crumbling state of our busy A roads, in particular the A530 Middlewich Road and A530 Whitchurch Road.
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