Householders across Nantwich and Crewe could face another 4.99% Council Tax rise in 2018-19 after Cheshire East Council unveiled its pre-Budget proposals today.
The authority is faced with finding £20 million of savings in the next financial year, while having to fund spiralling costs in adult social care and child care.
Stapeley councillors are calling for action at two busy road junctions in Nantwich after a series of accidents in recent weeks.
There have been a number of incidents at the traffic lights junctions of Newcastle Road/Elwood Way and further along where Elwood Way meets A51 London Road and Peter de Stapleigh Way.
Crewe and Nantwich residents who act as unpaid carers for a loved one can now access up to £500 from a new fund set up to pay for breaks.
The new Carers’ Living Well Fund, launched on November 1, is a joint initiative by Cheshire East Council, NHS Eastern Cheshire and NHS South Cheshire clinical commissioning groups.
The Leader of Cheshire East Council Rachel Bailey has unveiled her new-look Cabinet team.
And among the changes are Cllr Peter Groves, who represents Nantwich South and Stapeley, stepping away from his position.
Sunday and evening bus services in Crewe and Nantwich look set to be scrapped by Cheshire East Council after it reviewed its plans following consultation.
But Saturday services will be maintained as the authority prepares to press ahead with cuts to its subsidised bus services.
Nantwich parents are being urged to air their views on Cheshire East Council’s plans to change the way it funds school transport for those who need it.
Plans could include direct payments to eligible parents, only offering transport to pupils more than three miles from school, and changing its free transport policy for those with disabled parents.
The Secretary of State has backed Cheshire East Council’s Local Plan and dismissed a developer’s appeal to build 900 homes on a golf course.
The controversial scheme was for a mixed-use development including up to 900 new homes on the former Gorsty Hill golf course, near Crewe.
Police are investigating allegations into Cheshire East Council’s air quality data and a public funds grant made to Berkeley Academy in Wistaston, the authority confirmed today.
Recent reports revealed air quality data between 2012 and 2014 was ‘deliberately and systematically manipulated’ to suggest it was better than it actually was at around 40 of its testing sites, including in Nantwich and Crewe.
A £48 million plan to revitalise the Royal Arcade site in Crewe town centre is being considered by Cheshire East Council, it emerged today.
The plan aims to redevelop the Royal Arcade site to include a new eight-screen cinema, gym, restaurants, shops, a new bus station, and refurbish the Market Hal
Highways staff were left red-faced after painting bright yellow ‘school’ warning signs outside a village school near Nantwich which closed 10 years ago!
The clanger was made outside the old Buerton Primary School on Woore Road near Audlem.
The former Redsands children’s home in Nantwich has been sold, Cheshire East Council has confirmed.
The centre, off Crewe Road, has been derelict for years, attracting vandalism and costing the council in maintenance and repairs.
Defiant pensioner Laurence Perry’s mooning gnomes are still enjoying the limelight in Wistaston – despite threats from highways chiefs to have them removed.
Laurence has moved one of the gnomes a few feet from the roadside at Westfield Drive/Park Drive junction into the flower border.
More than 40 of Cheshire East Council’s 119 testing sites have been implicated in the air quality data scandal rocking the authority.
A damning report last week revealed how air quality data had been “deliberately manipulated” for three years.
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