By Stephen Topping
Cheshire East Council has more employees earning more than £100,000 than any other local authority in the north west, new figures have shown.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance has published its Town Hall Rich List for 2018 – showing the number of employees that received more than £100,000 in 2016-17.
By Stephen Topping
More than 20,000 homes with planning permission are yet to be built in Cheshire East – with some dating back as far as 2010.
Cheshire East Council has granted planning permission for 20,441 homes that are currently unbuilt.
Women at Cheshire East Council are earning 14.3% less than men on average, the authority’s gender pay gap report has revealed.
The report highlights the difference between the average earnings of its male and female employees.
By Lewis Warner
Bosses of a charity which provides carer breaks for South Cheshire families, has slammed Cheshire East Council for scrapping their funding.
The Neuromuscular Centre is to lose its annual grant of up to £25,000 – less than half the £58,000 claimed by Cheshire East councillors in travel expenses alone in 2016-17.
Family man Jake Lomax is standing for Labour Party in next week’s Bunbury ward Cheshire East Council by-election.
The 44-year-old, who lives in Bunbury with his family, has worked in manufacturing, defence and financial services for many years.
Parents across Crewe and Nantwich are being warned to look for signs of scarlet fever amid rise in cases across the region.
The symptoms of scarlet fever are a fine pinkish or red rash that feels similar to sandpaper – in conjunction with a sore throat, headache and fever.
Highways chiefs in Cheshire East have almost doubled the number of pothole repair teams in a bid to tackle the rapid rise in road defects.
Drivers are faced with hundreds of potholes on many journeys around Crewe and Nantwich, with major roads also badly affected.
Council Tax is set to rise by 5.99% this April – a higher increase than was proposed by Cheshire East Council just three months ago.
The authority’s Cabinet approved the move yesterday, claiming it is needed to “protect frontline services”.
Cheshire East Council’s Skills and Growth Company has launched a new service to help Crewe and Nantwich businesses access finance to boost growth.
Access2Finance comes after a business survey found that 28% of businesses said not accessing finance was a barrier to expansion.
Some Cheshire East Council staff have suffered bullying and harassment, a new report into the authority’s working culture has revealed.
An independent review into the council shows while many staff don’t experience it, it is having a “profound impact” on those who do.
Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated for measles following outbreaks in Cheshire and Merseyside.
There are 29 confirmed cases in Cheshire and Liverpool, with more cases in the West Midlands, West Yorkshire and the South.
Angry residents have called on action from Cheshire East highways to fix the growing tide of potholes plaguing the streets of Nantwich.
Highways bosses claim the weather conditions have caused the “increase in the number of potholes” this winter.
The sale of the former Cheshire East Council children’s home Redsands in Willaston, Nantwich, has been completed.
Engine of the North, Cheshire East Council’s wholly owned strategic property company, confirmed today it has completed the sale to Richmond Care Villages.
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