Stapeley councillors say funding has been secured for a new Puffin crossing on the busy Peter de Stapleigh Way.
It comes just weeks after a schoolboy was hit by a car using a drop-down kerb crossing.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East has given the go ahead for a plan to develop walking and cycling networks.
Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) have been developed for Crewe, Congleton, Macclesfield and Wilmslow.
Council bosses have agreed to offer Nantwich four FREE car parking days in the run up to Christmas.
The scheme is designed to boost the town’s economy in the festive season as local traders recover from the pandemic.
Green-fingered volunteers in Nantwich scooped gold after the town was named as joint overall winner in North West in Bloom.
Hard-working members of Nantwich in Bloom put hundreds of hours of their time into brightening up the town with flowerbeds, planters and baskets.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East’s planning department is under so much pressure because of recruitment problems that some staff are off sick and one new starter left after just six weeks.
A resourcing review is already under way and new executive director of place Jayne Traverse has offered to do a full review of the system.
Crewe and Nantwich MP saying voting for a change to a planned Environment Bill outlawing sewage dumping is not financially practical.
Dr Kieran Mullan hit back at critics who blasted him and other Tory MPs who voted against a bid to amend the Bill to stop water companies dumping sewage in streams and rivers.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East has granted a premises licence for the Dorfold Park Showground, home to the Nantwich Show for decades.
The showground, operating since 1946 and owned by Charles Roundell, has hosted community events such as Spooktacular and charity functions for years.
Town Council bosses have cancelled plans to release fireworks as part of Nantwich’s Christmas Lights switch-on.
The event is taking place this Friday in the town square and they were due to stage a firework display at the end of the switch-on.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
An advisory panel has been set up to look at future cemetery provision in Cheshire East after a councillor branded the existing strategy “callous” and “ludicrous”.
Cheshire East reviewed the strategy in 2018 and a long term proposal was that families would have to bury loved ones in Crewe or Macclesfield as other local cemeteries became full.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Bin collections are being missed in parts of Cheshire East as the council revealed it is still struggling to recruit drivers and has five vacancies to fill.
Ansa, CEC’s wholly-owned company responsible for waste collection, has taken to social media to apologise for missed collections due to driver shortages.
Volunteer gardeners in Nantwich were left stunned after thieves stole more than £200 worth of materials from the Growing Health Community Garden project in Brookfield Park.
The theft has left the project without 72 “Eco-deck” base grids, which form the solid platform for the fully accessible garden.
Cheshire East Council has announced its 2021 Christmas bin collection schedule.
Ansa – Cheshire East Council’s wholly-owned environmental services company – will be placing information stickers on black bins of households whose normal collections fall on bank holidays.
The owners of the Leopard pub in Nantwich have unveiled plans to expand and add a new garden room.
Joules Brewery, which owns the London Road venue, say the extension is needed to meet the demand from the shift from drinking occasions to dining occasions.
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