Environment

Nantwich Bookshop blooming after double floral award

Nantwich Bookshop blooming after double floral award

By Jonathan White
Nantwich Bookshop & Coffee Lounge on High Street has won a double award for floral excellence.

The town centre premises received two Certificates of Excellence for their floral contributions to the town this year.

October 27, 2022
Beam Street re-surfacing delayed until 2023, Cheshire East confirms

Beam Street re-surfacing delayed until 2023, Cheshire East confirms

Plans to re-surface Beam Street in Nantwich town centre have been delayed until 2023, Cheshire East Council has confirmed.

The announcement comes after highways completed the 18-week “footway improvement scheme” on the street between junctions with Manor Road and Waterlode.

October 27, 2022
Cheshire’s Buckley’s Bees provides honey for award-winning Three Wrens Gin

Cheshire’s Buckley’s Bees provides honey for award-winning Three Wrens Gin

A family-run apiary in South Cheshire and a Nantwich gin company are proving a tasty team!

Crewe-based Buckley’s Bees, which cares for bees and produces honey, is providing this sweet ingredient for Three Wrens Gin and its new award-winning drink.

October 26, 2022
RSPCA Stapeley warns anglers after hedgehog’s painful death

RSPCA Stapeley warns anglers after hedgehog’s painful death

A hedgehog’s horrific death has prompted a warning from RSPCA in Nantwich about the dangers of carelessly discarding fishing tackle.

The juvenile hedgehog was taken to RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre on London Road after he was found entangled in a fishing line in a Nantwich garden by a member of the public on October 2.

October 25, 2022
High Sheriff honours ‘Nantwich Food Festival Family’ with award

High Sheriff honours ‘Nantwich Food Festival Family’ with award

Organisers of Nantwich Food Festival have been honoured with an award from the High Sheriff of Cheshire, Jeannie France-Hayhurst.

The special award to the entire Nantwich Food Festival Family was presented to recognise “their exceptional service to the community”.

October 25, 2022
Inspector backs Cheshire East Council’s revised planning policy

Inspector backs Cheshire East Council’s revised planning policy

Cheshire East Council’s revised planning policy for the borough has been declared “sound” by an independent planning inspector.

The draft plan, known as the site allocation and development policy document (SADPD), outlines changes following various consultations with residents and local councils.

October 25, 2022
Beam Street re-opens after 18-week footway improvement works

Beam Street re-opens after 18-week footway improvement works

Town centre roads in Nantwich were re-opened today after an 18-week closure to allow for footway improvement works.

But the planned re-surfacing of Beam Street, as pledged in the initial Cheshire East Council scheme, have so far not taken place.

October 24, 2022
CEC to spend £150,000 on more EV car charging points

CEC to spend £150,000 on more EV car charging points

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has secured more than £150,000 from the government to install electric vehicle charging points in its towns.

Work is expected to start on installing the infrastructure in towns across the borough within the next few months.

October 22, 2022
The Northern Belle on the outward leg at Lunds

Nantwich-based luxury train Northern Belle voted Best in Britain

A posh train which has its head office in Nantwich has been voted the Best in Britain – and ninth in the World.

The 1930s Pullman-style Northern Belle pipped other famous luxury trains like Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer and India’s Maharajah Express.

October 21, 2022
Utility firms not turning up blamed on delayed A530 re-opening

Utility firms not turning up blamed on delayed A530 re-opening

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Utility firms failing to turn up for essential work added to delays to the A530 Middlewich Road closure and can’t be forced to pay compensation, a councillor has said.

Middlewich Road, which has been closed between Pyms Lane and Smithy Lane since May, was due to re-open this month.

October 21, 2022
Nantwich campaigners want views on single-use plastic

Nantwich campaigners want views on single-use plastic

Plastic Free Nantwich campaigners are collecting views of local residents to find out how the community is doing in the fight against plastic pollution.

The group, part of Sustainable Nantwich, wants to know how families, schools and local businesses are reducing single use plastic and how difficult they find it.

October 19, 2022
Leighton Hospital seeks to built new modular ward

Leighton Hospital seeks to built new modular ward

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Leighton Hospital bosses have applied for permission to build a new two-storey modular ward on its Crewe site.

The Crewe hospital was built in the 1970s using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete panels (RAAC planks) in the roof which now need replacing on safety grounds.

October 19, 2022
Council clamps down on music events at Cholmondeley Estate near Nantwich

Council clamps down on music events at Cholmondeley Estate near Nantwich

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Amplified music events at Cholmondeley Estate will have to end at midnight following 234 complaints about a festival which was so loud one local family moved into a hotel.

Environmental health officer Margaret Hopley said the four-day Outlook Festival between June 30 and July 3 featured live music from 4pm to 4am and was audible up to 11 miles from the premises.

October 19, 2022