Cheshire East highways chiefs say their Government funding for highways maintenance has been slashed by almost £4 million.
CEC says it has been allocated £13 million from the government’s highways maintenance funding for next financial year.
More than 20 people are being investigated following an operation to tackle waste crime in Cheshire.
Vehicles and companies believed to be involved in illegal disposal or management of waste were targeted.
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
New cycling infrastructure “will enable the most vulnerable people in our society to maintain their independence by providing safety” in Cheshire East.
That’s according to Cllr Suzie Akers Smith, Cheshire East Council’s Cycling and Walking Champion.
Work has started on a major project to open a new “Cultural Quarter” in Nantwich including a boutique hotel, artisan shops, restaurants and apartments.
Vegetation and trees have been cleared off the former gasworks site on St Anne’s Lane to allow for a six-month clean up of contaminated land.
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Ward councillors in Cheshire East are to have an extra £4,200 to tackle issues like potholes from April.
As part of the Cheshire East 2021/22 budget, Cllr David Marren proposed an amendment to the finance plans which would see each member given ‘at least £4,200’ to tackle highway maintenance issues in their area.
A popular independent health clinic in Nantwich is expanding and moving to larger premises on the outskirts of the town.
Tom and Gill Fox, who run The Nantwich Clinic, are set to open an all-new Health Hub by converting premises off Newcastle Road in Stapeley, opposite Cheerbrook farm shop.
Organisers have cancelled this year’s Nantwich Food Festival because of the current pandemic.
The popular 3-day event, scheduled for September, pulls in tens of thousands of visitors every year.
Nantwich Museum is bidding to buy a late Bronze Age collection of items known as “Wrenbury Hoard”.
The collection of seven objects are believed to around 3,000 years old and was discovered in the Wrenbury area of Nantwich.
Angry parish councillors near Nantwich are clubbing together to call on highways chiefs to stop leaving rural areas “cut off” by flooded roads.
Villagers in the Wrenbury, Newhall, Sound and Marbury areas say council bosses have left them stranded by failing to empty gullies and clear the floods.
Work is now underway on a new multi-million pound project to expand Leighton Hospital’s Emergency Department.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages the hospital, received government funding last year to reconfigure and expand emergency care services.
Bosses at Cheerbrook Farm Shop in Nantwich say they are still open this weekend – despite the main A51 Newcastle Road being closed by highways for major repair work.
The business was preparing for a busy Valentine’s weekend when they told about the closure by a customer.
Crewe and Nantwich residents are being urged to have their say in the latest consultation for phase 2a of the HS2 scheme.
Phase 2a will connect the controversial high speed rail line to Crewe from Birmingham and Crewe.
Highways chiefs say they will repair a badly damaged road on one of the busiest routes into Nantwich in the next 24-48 hours.
The A51 Newcastle Road, close to Cheerbrook farm shop, was badly damaged more than two weeks in floods caused by Storm Christopher.
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