LETTER: ESF or S114 – What’s in a name?
Dear Editor,
Every year, councils are legally required to produce a balanced budget.
Every year we hear a litany of reasons why CEC is sliding further and further into debt.
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CEC delays over election costs threaten town and parish councils, says councillor
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is jeopardising the financial stability of some town and parish councils by delaying telling them how much they will have to pay for local election costs, a councillor has said.
The decision to get the lower tier councils to stump up the costs for their local elections for the first time, was included in Cheshire East’s budget in February this year.
LETTER: Cheshire East Council Budget Consultation 2024-25
Dear Editor,
In one of the documents of Cheshire East Council Budget Consultation, you show that central support has dropped for £55M to near zero over 10 years, then state that “The council must therefore do things differently for less”
New office plans for Alvaston at Nantwich refused by councillors
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A new office development for Nantwich has been “slapped down” every time it comes forward despite no parish councils or residents ever objecting to it, a councillor said.
Willaston councillor Allen Gage (Con) was speaking just before Cheshire East’s southern planning committee again refused an application to build on land off the Alvaston Roundabout.
READER’S LETTER: Councils “absent without leave” during pandemic
Dear Editor,
The full Cheshire East Council last met on the 20th of February…… It has not met since.
It has not met for over FOUR MONTHS…… and has no plans to do so.
South Cheshire town and parish councils “invited” to help fund bus network
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Town and parish councils are being invited to chip in alongside Cheshire East Council to help improve the borough’s bus network.
CEC recently confirmed it is working with neighbouring Cheshire West and Chester Council to fund a Sunday service for Crewe, Shavington, Leighton Hospital, Middlewich, Winsford and Northwich.
Councils agree to new Sunday bus service to Leighton Hospital
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Two Cheshire councils have agreed to work together to support a Sunday bus service connecting mid Cheshire to Leighton Hospital and Crewe from next February.
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