By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East residents will be charged for garden waste collection after the budget was approved.
But some councillors fear this could prove costly for the environment and the council.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Proposed changes to council tax rules for second home owners could see Cheshire East rake in an extra £2.6m from 2024.
The government is currently bringing forward the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill which will give councils further flexibility when it comes to billing second home owners.
Reaseheath College’s construction students are to gain real life skills by building a bungalow on the college’s Nantwich campus.
The college has received £110,000 funding from Specialist lender Together to enable the project to go ahead.
Plans have been submitted for the proposed new primary school at Kingsley Fields in Nantwich, writes Belinda Ryan.
The one-form entry school, which will accommodate 210 pupils, is planned for vacant land off Richard Gibson Road.
The Home Energy Support Fund is now available to help people in South Cheshire struggling to pay rocketing domestic fuel bills.
Many people tis winter have seen their fuel bills increasing by as much as 300% to 400%.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Conservatives are proposing an amendment to the budget urging the council to develop a lane rental scheme to charge utility companies which dig up roads.
The suggestion was first put forward by group leader Janet Clowes (Wybunbury) at a meeting of the corporate policy committee.
Reaseheath College welcomed Roads and Local Transport Minister Richard Holden MP onto campus during National Apprenticeship Week to see the progress of the UK’s first dedicated Bus and Coach Engineering Academy.
The academy is the result of an innovative and forward-thinking partnership between Reaseheath and First Bus.
Residents have called for action on a “dangerous” junction near Nantwich which has seen three accidents in three days this week.
The latest incident happened yesterday (February 15) at the junction of the A534 with Monk’s Lane and Cuckoo Lane, at Acton.
The A530 Middlewich Road between Leighton Hospital and Pyms Lane will finally reopen to motorists on Saturday February 18.
Cheshire East Council has now confirmed the first phase of the North West Crewe Package works on the A530 between Pyms Lane and Smithy Lane is complete.
The A530 Middlewich Road is set to re-open next week, Cheshire East Council has confirmed.
The key road has been closed since May last year between Pyms Lane and Leighton Hospital as part of the North West Crewe Package (NWCP) scheme.
Cheshire East Council is to start work on a large-scale solar farm near Leighton Hospital which will generate renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.
The 4.1 megawatt solar farm – enough to power about 1,200 houses – is being built on land next to the composting plant in Leighton Grange Farm in Crewe.
A new report from Cheshire Wildlife Trust has uncovered what it describes as “shocking failings” in the high-speed rail scheme’s standard of work.
The trusts says it has been fact-checking the nature-loss claims of HS2 Ltd for the past 12 months.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Utility companies could be charged up to £2,500 “rent” a day for digging up roads to carry out repairs in Cheshire East.
That is one possibility Cheshire East Council is looking into to generate much-needed cash and to ensure the companies carry out the work speedily so roads can be re-opened quicker.
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