Post Tagged with: "Cheshire East Council"

Travellers moved from Barony Park in 24 hours in injunction’s first test

Travellers moved from Barony Park in 24 hours in injunction’s first test

Travellers who broke through new barriers onto Barony Park in Nantwich in breach of a court injunction were moved on shortly before 4pm today.

It was the first test of the new two-year injunction granted to Cheshire East Council last August.

March 30, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Cheshire East staff “deserve to be appreciated”

READER’S LETTER: Cheshire East staff “deserve to be appreciated”

Dear Editor,

Questions were raised at last week’s Audit and Governance meeting about how inclusive the 3 day’s Health and Welfare leave granted to Cheshire East’s staff, in acknowledgment of the pressure of work they have coped with during the Covid period, has been.

March 15, 2021
Cheshire East Council to unveil new look Crewe market hall

Cheshire East Council to unveil new look Crewe market hall

Crewe’s new-look historic Market Hall is almost ready to be unveiled, says Cheshire East Council.

It’s planned to re-open the hall on May 17 with an official launch on June 21, according to Cheshire East Council and Market Asset Management – the new commercial operator of Crewe’s markets.

March 15, 2021
Recycling rates in Cheshire East area fall, data shows

Recycling rates in Cheshire East area fall, data shows

By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Recycling rates in Cheshire East have fallen slightly over the last five years.

New data, sourced from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs also shows that Cheshire East Council collected 501.3kg of household waste per person from homes in the area in 2019-20 — 18.3kg more than five years earlier.

March 15, 2021
Janet Clowes, Conservative group leader

READER’S LETTER: Enforcement of planning breaches should not be “optional”

Dear Editor,

I was pleased to read of Cheshire East Council’s success last week, in securing a High Court Order against a significant incursion onto agricultural land in the Green Belt at Mobberley.

February 28, 2021
Cheshire East launches “contaminated land” public consultation

Cheshire East launches “contaminated land” public consultation

Cheshire East Council is seeking views from residents on its plans for dealing with potentially contaminated land in the borough.

The authority is updating its five-year strategy for identifying and inspecting potentially contaminated sites.

February 28, 2021
Developers announce dementia care home plan in Shavington

Developers announce dementia care home plan in Shavington

Developers have unveiled plans for a 72-bedroom specialist dementia care home in Shavington.

The plans are for land off Gresty Road, led by Liberty Care Developments and Anavo.

February 28, 2021
READER’S LETTER: Impact of St Anne’s Lane car park closure

READER’S LETTER: Impact of St Anne’s Lane car park closure

Dear Editor

I am writing to you, to express my concerns about the way in which the Council has handled the closure of the unofficial St Anne’s Lane car park (in Nantwich)

February 26, 2021
Cheshire East Council says highways maintenance funding “cut” by Government

Cheshire East Council says highways maintenance funding “cut” by Government

Cheshire East highways chiefs say their Government funding for highways maintenance has been slashed by almost £4 million.

CEC says it has been allocated £13 million from the government’s highways maintenance funding for next financial year.

February 25, 2021
READER’S LETTER: No justification for Cheshire East Council Tax rises

READER’S LETTER: No justification for Cheshire East Council Tax rises

Dear Editor,
There is no justification for Council tax increases this year.

But despite that, Crewe residents will have to pay an increased Council Tax to no less than all the four authorities they are obliged in law to pay…..and in most cases the increases are many times over the rate of inflation.

February 23, 2021
More than 1,000 people “unlawfully deprived of liberty” by CEC, report finds

More than 1,000 people “unlawfully deprived of liberty” by CEC, report finds

By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
More than 1,000 people were unlawfully deprived of their liberty by Cheshire East Council, a new investigation has found.

The investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found that the council had “significant” delays in processing Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS).

February 21, 2021
Cheshire East seeks to expand community Covid-19 testing in borough

Cheshire East seeks to expand community Covid-19 testing in borough

By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Talks are ongoing between Cheshire East Council and the government over expanding community Covid-19 testing in the borough.

Professor Rod Thomson, public health consultant for CEC, revealed that the authority has ‘an expression of interest with the Department for Health and Social Care to allow those individuals who have to leave home for work’ more access to community testing.

January 31, 2021
Residents face 4.99% Council Tax increase from Cheshire East Council

Residents face 4.99% Council Tax increase from Cheshire East Council

By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Residents in Nantwich are set to pay nearly 5% more Council Tax in 2021/22 than they did this year.

Cheshire East Council has released its final draft of the authority’s Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS), which lays out the borough’s spending and tax plans from 2021-25.

January 26, 2021