A High Court judge has thrown Muller Property a lifeline in its bid to build a controversial 1,100-home ‘Nantwich South’ village in Stapeley.
The judge has quashed a decision by the Secretary of State last August which had refused Muller’s attempt to overturn Cheshire East Council’s original rejection of the development’s first phase.
Crewe and Nantwich MP Edward Timpson is to run the London Marathon to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund and Muscular Dystrophy UK.
Mr Timpson is training for a race which he has completed 12 times since starting in 1988.
Campaigners fighting new school funding plans in South Cheshire have hit out at MP Edward Timpson for failing to attend a public meeting.
The protest against the proposed National Funding Formula, which could leave Crewe and Nantwich schools at the bottom of the UK funding table, is gathering momentum.
By Jonathan White
Hundreds of families across Cheshire East took part in a protest march in Sandbach against school cuts under the Government’s planned National Funding Formula.
The march was led by campaign organiser and Nantwich mum and teacher Laura Smith.
An authority’s plan to cash-in on advertising space on Nantwich roundabouts could pose a danger to drivers, councillors have warned.
ANSA, Cheshire East Council’s environmental services arm, wants to offer sponsorship signs on three roundabouts on major routes in and out of the town.
Campaigners in South Cheshire are planning a second protest against the proposed National Funding Formula which could see budget cuts in schools.
Hundreds of families gathered in Nantwich town square a week ago to voice their anger at the NFF which could see local schools more than 3% worse off.
Hundreds of families across Cheshire East gathered in Nantwich today to protest at school cuts under the Government’s planned National Funding Formula.
Teachers and parents in Nantwich and Crewe fear the new NFF will see Cheshire East worse off, facing a 4.5% cut in budgets over the next two years.
Angry parents in Nantwich are planning to protest in the town centre over proposed Government cuts to school funding.
Plans by Schools Minister Nick Gibb to introduce a new National Funding Formula could see Nantwich schools hundreds of thousands of pounds worse off.
Primary schools in Nantwich may have to cut teaching staff by 25% if the Government’s national funding formula plan goes ahead.
And some may be forced to cut back to a four-day week.
One of Nantwich’s key allotment sites is under water as engineers try to solve a flooding mystery.
More than half of the plots on the Brookfield Allotments off Shrewbridge Road have been flooded for several days.
A Nantwich councillor said he was “staggered” and “bitterly disappointed” after a Cabinet minister gave the go ahead for housing developers to use an “unsafe” access point.
Stapeley campaigners lost their fight this week to prevent Wainhomes from narrowing busy Audlem Road from 7m to just 5.5m.
Families across Nantwich and Crewe are facing a 4.99% hike in Cheshire East Council Tax bills, it has emerged.
The whopping rise comes as the authority revealed it has to find £100 million of savings by 2020.
A South Cheshire councillor and UKIP supporter wants ‘rigorous vetting’ similar to Donald Trump’s controversial US travel ban on seven Muslim countries.
Cllr Brian Silvester, from Willaston, believes it should be the UK’s top priority to “address the Islamist threat”.
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