Nantwich Town Council says it will “discuss alternative delivery methods” with organisers of external markets it plans to withdraw from.
It says the decision to withdraw from around 12 externally organised Artisan and Antique Fair markets was taken because of difficulties attracting staff and wellbeing on existing workers.
Conservative MPs across the North West have backed Crewe’s bid to become the home of Great British Railways.
Eighteen MPs have signed a joint letter to the new Secretary of State for Transport Anne-Marie Trevelyan including the Crewe & Nantwich MP Dr Kieran Mullan who organised the approach.
Town councillors in Nantwich are hoping a £15,000 “weed-buster” machine will help clean up its allotments and streets.
They voted to test out the new “Foamstream” machine with a view to buying one for the council’s use.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council looks set to give councillors paid parental leave to encourage more people to stand for election and take part in the democratic process.
If the policy is agreed by full council it would apply to parents, regardless of their gender, and cover adoption leave to support those who choose to adopt.
Councillors have backed plans to axe around 10 externally run Antique and Artisan markets in Nantwich town centre.
The proposal would see the council stage more live music and children’s activities on the square in their place.
A Nantwich councillor told a police inspector that illegal drug activity in the town is “getting worse”.
Cllr Stuart Bostock said there were obvious areas where people gathered to deal or buy drugs around Nantwich.
A first quarter finance review of Cheshire East Council spend shows it is facing massive deficits in 2022-23 of up to £12 million.
The review, published this week, forecasts a reduction in the council’s coffers of £11.7m – with the largest rise in expenditure in the council’s adults and children’s services.
Employees of North West Ambulance Service are set to vote on taking industrial action over pay and working conditions.
The vote has been actioned by the GMB Union who announced it has launched a formal industrial action ballot.
Elected members of Cheshire East Council will have more cash to spend on highways projects in their local wards next year.
Ward member budgets, introduced in 2021, will increase by 50% from £4,200 to £6,500.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council chiefs have been using taxpayers money to maintain more than 500 green space plots of land which may be privately owned.
Director of environment and neighbourhood services Paul Bayley said the authority has been maintaining 547 parcels of land not registered as being owned by the council.
Cheshire East members have expressed concern about the number of council meetings being cancelled and asked whether this is because of staff vacancies, writes Belinda Ryan.
More than 20 committee meetings have been cancelled since January 2022, according to the council’s own online calendar.
Nantwich Town Council is looking to elect a new town councillor following the death of Cllr Philip Staley.
Cllr Staley represented the South Ward of the Town of Nantwich.
The new A51 Reaseheath bypass should be open by end of October, residents have been told.
An update on the road was given at a parish council meeting last week as it emerged how many homes have now been occupied on the Kingsbourne housing development.
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