By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
A major project to dual the A500 single carriageway between Crewe will start in 2020 after it was given planning approval.
The £55 million project has been unanimously approved by Cheshire East Council’s strategic planning board at a meeting yesterday (December 19).
By Stephen Topping
Plans to build 15 new homes in the green gap near Shavington have been rejected by Cheshire East Council.
Members of the southern planning committee unanimously rejected the scheme, which included four, three-bedroom affordable dwellings, at a meeting yesterday (August 8).
A man has been jailed after his light goods vehicle crashed head on with a van on the A500, killing the Willaston driver.
Adam Daniel Staley, 35, was driving towards Crewe on the A500 at Barthomley when he crashed into a van driven by Neil Dey (pictured), 31, who was heading towards Stoke.
A vehicle fire damaged the A500 Shavington bypass embankment.
The incident happened on the dual carriageway heading towards the Shavington roundabout.
The dualling of the A500 between Crewe and the M6 motorway has moved a step closer.
It is one of three major highways schemes planned for Cheshire East which the authority’s Cabinet has agreed.
A man on a mobility scooter needed a police escort after he took a wrong turn on to the busy A500 dual carriageway near Nantwich.
Officers were alerted when people reported the scooter motoring along the A500 close to the Cheerbrook roundabout between Nantwich and Shavington.
A lorry smash on the M6 which closed it in both directions has sparked traffic chaos on South Cheshire’s major routes today.
An HGV crashed into the central reservation on the M6 northbound near junction 19 Knutsford.
Plans are now being unveiled to dual the final stretch of the A500 between Shavington bypass and the M6.
Cheshire East Council is to launch a public consultation on the proposals which will involve widening the current single carriageway stretch between the roundabout at the B5472 and the new dual carriageway section near the M6, junction 16.
Thousands of people were caught up in travel chaos in South Cheshire after the M6 was closed in both directions when two lorries collided.
It caused more than 18,000 litres of corrosive liquid to spill across the carriageway between junctions 18 and 19.
A motorcyclist was injured after she crashed at Cheerbrook roundabout on the A500 Nantwich Bypass.
The victim, 27, from the Wirral, was initially treated at the scene by a passerby who was a trained lifeguard.
A car which went up in flames on the busy A500 Nantwich bypass, sparked long traffic delays.
Fire crews were called to the blaze when an Audi car went up in smoke on the A500 between the Cheerbrook and Peacock roundabouts.
A van driver had to be cut free after being seriously injured in a collision with a HGV on the A500 near Shavington.
The accident forced the closure of the Barthomley bypass section for several hours between Shavington and the M6 junction 16.
A teenage boy found dead close to the A500 in Nantwich, has been named as Scott Madden-Nevitt.
Scott, aged 16, went missing from his home in Wistaston on Monday November 28.
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