Cheshire East Council bosses have defended the £3.7 million spent on the Local Plan which has taken more than five years to put together.
Critics have attacked the authority for spending the amount after a planning inspector criticised the Plan for not addressing housing supply needs.
A housing developer wants to build another 118 homes on a farmland in Nantwich – just days after Cheshire East Council’s Local Plan was kicked into touch by an inspector.
Now furious councillors and residents are preparing for another fight to stop the latest proposals for land off Queens Drive.
A loan shark who charged his “clients” 10 per cent interest per week has been arrested and cautioned.
The 43-year-old was netted in an operation by Cheshire East Council Trading Standards and the England Illegal Money Lending Team.
A Willaston councillor has “called in” an application to build five detached houses in the village, branding it “contentious”.
Cllr Brian Silvester said he was “amazed” that a planning officer at Cheshire East Council was going to decide on the plan for the detached houses on land off Cheerbrook Road.
Campaigners in Wistaston have pleaded with Cheshire East Council to create a new “Green Belt” to stop more green areas being lost to developers.
They say the interim findings of the planning inspector’s examination of the Local Plan are a “kick in the teeth” for villages like Wistaston.
Nantwich residents are being warned that household green waste is about to be suspended for the winter.
Cheshire East Council say the suspension between December 8 and February 13 (inclusive) will save taxpayers money.
A war memorial in a village near Nantwich has been handed a £2,400 boost to undergo much-needed renovation.
The money will help repair and refurbish the church gateway of St Boniface Church in Bunbury.
Council chiefs hope to open a new site to stop illegal traveller camps setting up in Nantwich and other areas.
More than 75 illegal camps have been reported across Cheshire East this year, with one recently on Barony Park in Nantwich.
Parking charges on council-run car parks in Nantwich will be scrapped on three Saturdays before Christmas.
The move is designed to boost trade in Nantwich during the peak festive shopping period.
Elderly residents in a popular lunch club have vowed to remain as “sitting tenants” amid fears their base at The Gables is to be sold off by Cheshire East Council.
More than 50 members of the town’s popular Luncheon Club have been told that Cheshire East is putting their Beam Street base up for sale.
A councillor is furious that plans to demolish a historic Nantwich village pub were pushed through, despite a council conservation officer’s recommendation to save it.
The owners of The Horse Shoe Inn, on Newcastle Road, Willaston have applied to knock the closed pub down to make way for potential housing on the site.
A Nantwich man fraudulently claimed almost £20,000 benefits, despite having tens of thousands of pounds stashed away in bank accounts.
But Patrick Bird was caught and prosecuted by Cheshire East Council after receiving a total of £19,885.79.
Tough new laws are to be imposed in Nantwich to help prevent violent dog attacks.
Cheshire East Council is to use new legal powers available to police and local councils from today (October 20).
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