Part of the main A51 route between Nantwich and Chester will be closed for three days from today for essential repairs, highways chiefs have warned.
Motorists are being urged to find alternative routes between April 9-12. The road will be closed between 7pm and 6am.
Vulnerable residents in Crewe and Nantwich who desperately need essentials like food or furniture are slipping through the net because they don’t know about the household support fund, councillors said.
Cheshire East Council has received nearly £3.9 million from the government to help the most vulnerable families with food, utilities, white goods, housing support and other household essentials.
Cheshire East Council chiefs have defended their decision to charge organisers of the Nantwich Food Festival for the use of their car parks.
In previous years, the festival was able to use car parks such as Love Lane and Bowling Green for free to stage their food hall marquees.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is refusing to discuss in public how much it spends on individual car parks and how much income it receives from them.
The council, which says it is ‘open and fair’ in its corporate plan, was asked by two members of its own highways and transport committee for a breakdown on the car parks.
Cheshire East Council bosses have agreed to a 12-month extension to work with South Cheshire domestic abuse charity, MyCWA.
It comes after the charity raised concerns earlier this year over whether CEC it would be renewing its contract with them.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Connor Naismith has hit back at claims he is one of more than 20 Labour MPs who should be investigated over an election expense.
The Electoral Commission has been sent a list of Labour MPs in relation to the use of Labour’s national “Change” battlebus during the 2024 General Election campaign.
Motorists in Nantwich and Crewe face paying for car parking until 10pm on Cheshire East Council car parks from May.
And they will also have to pay to park on Sundays when it is currently free.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter.
Plans for a solar farm near Nantwich which could supply energy to more than 6,500 homes a year have been unanimously approved.
Noventum Power Ltd wants to construct and operate the solar farm on a 17.5-hectare site in the open countryside at Hatherton Lodge Farm, off Hunsterson Road.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
The nightmare is finally over for hundreds of residents who have been living on a South Cheshire housing estate with no planning permission because of massive failings by Cheshire East Council and developer Countryside Partnerships.
Countryside was given permission to build the 263-home Coppenhall Place on the former Bombardier site in Crewe in 2018.
A new primary school for Nantwich will not be ready for pupils until September 2026 at the earliest.
Work to build the new Kingsbourne Academy on the Kingsbourne development off Waterlode has been dogged by delays.
Former Bunbury ward councillor Sarah Pochin has been selected by Reform UK as their candidate for the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election.
Ms Pochin, who was Conservative councillor and then Independent councillor on Cheshire East, will stand for Nigel Farage’s Reform at the by election which is expected to take place on May 1.
Time is running out for local residents to have a say on plans to overhaul how local democracy works in Cheshire, writes Belinda Ryan.
A public consultation is to end on April 13.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council’s deputy leader is being stalked and some councillors don’t feel safe in their own homes because of abuse and harassment from the public.
The problem has increased to such an extent, the council set up a task and finish group to look into the issue.
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