Suspended Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury has been summonsed to court charged with assault.
Mr Amesbury, Labour MP for Runcorn and Helsby, has been summonsed to court to face the charge of section 39 assault.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A Willaston councillor wants assurances that residents will not be charged extra council tax on a second home while legalities over a death in the family are sorted.
Cheshire East Council is due to apply the charge to all properties classed as second homes from April next year.
Protesters from Audlem called on Cheshire East Council to re-think plans to introduce parking charges, saying it would impact health workers and prevent businesses relocating to town centres, writes Belinda Ryan.
Placard-waving demonstrators turned up outside yesterday’s meeting of the full council at Jodrell Bank to put their arguments to councillors before next month’s highways committee meeting, when a decision on the charges will be made.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Residents with smaller black household waste bins will have to pay for a larger one if they need it after Cheshire East introduces the new garden bin collection charge.
The £56 garden waste charge, which is due to be introduced in January, will inevitably result in an increase in rubbish dumped in black bins.
Bosses at Cheshire East Council have refused a request to revisit the controversial Green Waste Charges set to be brought in from January, say Conservative councillors.
The Conservative Group on Cheshire East had officially referred the decision made at Environment & Communities Committee decision to implement Green Waste Charges to full council.
Tory councillors on Cheshire East Council have said they are “formally challenging” the authority’s plan to charge £56 for garden waste collections.
Labour-led CEC says the charge is necessary as the council is facing a £20 million funding gap and that other authorities already charge for the collections.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has defended plans to introduce the highest charge in the north west for garden waste collections.
The council plans to start charging £56 a year to empty garden waste bins from January through its subscription service.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Food waste from Cheshire East households will have to go in black bins from January amid plans to charge residents for garden waste recycling, admits the council.
Food recycling will formally stop next year in Cheshire East as legally authorities are not allowed to charge to collect food waste.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East residents will be charged for garden waste collection after the budget was approved.
But some councillors fear this could prove costly for the environment and the council.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Conservatives are proposing an amendment to the budget urging the council to develop a lane rental scheme to charge utility companies which dig up roads.
The suggestion was first put forward by group leader Janet Clowes (Wybunbury) at a meeting of the corporate policy committee.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
CEC councillors fear a rise in rats and increased fly-tipping if charges for emptying garden waste bins are brought in.
Proposals outlined in the mid-term financial strategy 2023-7 (budget) reveal Cheshire East could rake in up to £4m a year by introducing the charge.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Charging for green waste bin collections across Cheshire East could rake in up to £4 million a year.
The proposal to charge residents to empty their green waste (brown) bins is one of the measures councillors will be considering at Thursday’s meeting of the environment and communities committee.
Cheshire East Council has come in for some stick this year over its car parking policy.
But it ‘snow’ joke when they ended up charging Santa Claus during his flying visit to Nantwich today!
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