A study is to take place into whether the Cheshire Basin near Nantwich could generate long-term, renewable energy from geothermal power.
Keele University is to carry out major research into whether land north of Nantwich and west of Crewe could be viable.
More than £10 million of extra funding will help tackle pothole-ridden roads across Nantwich and Crewe.
Cheshire East Council has received it as part of a £54.5 million Government allocation to improve roads over the next six years to 2020/21.
A new recycling and refuse plant is to be built in South Cheshire, replacing Pyms Lane which is to be sold to Bentley.
Cheshire East Council wants to build a multi-purpose depot on the site of the disused Ideal Standard factory in Middlewich.
A Cheshire East Council director whose department presided over the much-criticised effort to deliver the Local Plan, is set to be promoted with a £30,000 pay rise.
Caroline Simpson (pictured) is set to move from “director of economic growth and prosperity” to “executive director of economic growth and prosperity”, according to a report.
Independent councillors say a motion calling for Cheshire East Council leaders to quit over the Local Plan fiasco has been blocked.
Councillor Arthur Moran, of Nantwich North, and Cllr Brendan Murphy constructed the motion to be tabled at a full council meeting this Thursday.
Council-run respite care homes serving Nantwich residents have been given a 12-month reprieve.
The future of Lincoln House in Crewe looked in doubt as Cheshire East Council looks to the independent sector to provide future care.
Key players from the region’s railway industry are meeting in South Cheshire to outline the benefits of the proposed HS2 North West hub station at Crewe.
And it comes on the same day Chancellor George Osborne visited Bentley in Crewe to further outline the impact of his Autumn statement on the economy.
Opposition councillors have blasted Conservative-led Cheshire East Council over the growing number of housing appeal losses.
New figures show Cheshire East has lost a staggering 29 appeals in 2014 alone – four times the number they lost in 2012.
Cheshire East Council bosses have defended the £3.7 million spent on the Local Plan which has taken more than five years to put together.
Critics have attacked the authority for spending the amount after a planning inspector criticised the Plan for not addressing housing supply needs.
Nantwich residents are being warned that household green waste is about to be suspended for the winter.
Cheshire East Council say the suspension between December 8 and February 13 (inclusive) will save taxpayers money.
Furious opposition councillors have called for Cheshire East Council heads to roll after figures revealed £3.7 million has been spent on the authority’s flawed Local Plan.
And the first casualty was unveiled today, as Cllr David Brown who has overseen the Plan since 2010 announced he is stepping aside.
A campaigner fighting to keep developers away from Stapeley and Nantwich says Cheshire East’s Local Plan delay will “inevitably lead” to more unsuitable developments.
Pat Cullen, who runs Protect Stapeley, has blasted council staff for failing after five years to get the Local Plan adopted.
Council chiefs hope to open a new site to stop illegal traveller camps setting up in Nantwich and other areas.
More than 75 illegal camps have been reported across Cheshire East this year, with one recently on Barony Park in Nantwich.
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