By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Complaints against Cheshire East’s planning department have risen by a third as the council battles a backlog of planning applications and staffing shortage.
A consultation on plans for a new primary school in Nantwich is underway.
Cheshire East Council chiefs want to hear views of people in Nantwich and surrounding area which will be built at Kingsley Fields, near the Nantwich Town football ground.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council’s former mayor has donated part of his allowance to charity and foodbanks after holding the post for two years.
For the first time, Cheshire East had the same mayor for two years because of the Covid pandemic.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Rotting food has been left in garden waste bins in parts of Cheshire East where fortnightly collections have been missed because of a lack of staff.
Cllr Rachel Bailey (Audlem, Con) has called on the council’s audit and governance committee to look at how waste food is collected and how the scheme operates to see if anything can be done.
A Cheshire East woman was told she would have to wait six months for an appointment to register her baby’s birth, councillors heard.
Members of the audit and governance committee are now seeking assurances that, if there are delays, it won’t prevent families from claiming child benefit immediately after the baby’s birth.
Eddisbury MP Edward Timpson is set to tackle his 17th London Marathon – this time in aid of Cheshire Young Carers.
The organisation works to give a childhood to young people aged six to 25 with caring responsibilities.
Cheshire East councillors netted more than £1.25 million between them in expenses and allowances in 2020-21, latest figures show.
A basic allowance of £12,351 is paid to each of the 82 elected members, adding up to just short of £1 million.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East councillors have approved controversial plans to charge the over 85s for a lifeline care alarm system they currently get for free.
At the moment residents who are over 85 and live alone do not pay for the assistive technology (Telecare service) they receive.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East’s entire Covid-related costs have been funded by the government to date and not the council.
The revelation comes after the authority predicted the impact of the Covid pandemic would cost about £70 million and swallow up the council’s reserves.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council’s children’s services department has overspent its budget for the fourth year in a row and the problem has been exacerbated by safeguarding issues because of Covid.
The council as a whole underspent by £1.2m last year, mainly because projects could not be completed because of the pandemic.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Repairing Cheshire East’s roads will take a staggering 400 years if the investment from government continues at the same rate.
That’s the claim made by the chair of the highways committee at Cheshire East Council, Cllr Craig Browne.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Plans to introduce parking charges in towns where it is currently free, have been controversially scrapped by Cheshire East Council.
If approved, charges would have been introduced in Middlewich, Alsager, Holmes Chapel, Sandbach and other towns in line with Nantwich, Crewe, and Macclesfield.
Four new senior officers have been recruited and appointed by Cheshire East Council – with a combined pay of just under £500,000.
The new posts are Executive Director Adults, Health and Integration (up to £139,999), Executive Director Place (£134,999), Executive Director Children’s Services (£129,999) and Director of Policy and Change (£89,999).
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