Dear Editor,
A parent at Vine Tree Primary school on Danebank Avenue, in Crewe has contacted me after she received our by-election leaflet for Crewe West.
She says that when they first started at the school six years ago, there was a crossing attendant outside the school to help the parents/pupils cross safely.
Cheshire East Council has so far failed to fulfil its pledge to re-paint a busy Nantwich zebra crossing – three months on since its danger was highlighted.
We revealed on August 4 how local resident Bill Pearson was told the worn away crossing between the Railway Hotel and Chic Interiors in Nantwich was “not an immediate risk”.
CEC bosses are now set to carry out works to a busy zebra crossing where markings have worn out, despite initially saying it posed “no immediate risk”.
The u-turn comes after Nantwich News highlighted the concerns of resident Bill Pearson who was nearly hit a number of times bu vehicles seemingly unaware of the crossing.
Work is underway to install a new crossing in Nantwich after months of campaigning by residents, local councillors and Crewe & Nantwich MP.
The crossing is being build on Peter Destapleigh Way at the exit from the Stapeley Water Gardens estate.
The MP for Crewe and Nantwich has written to the Attorney General calling for the jail sentence of Joshua Spender’s killer to be reviewed.
It comes as thousands have signed a petition calling for a longer jail term for William Bratton, who ploughed into Joshua on a crossing in Crewe and then sped away from the scene.
A man has been jailed for seven years after hitting and killing a pedestrian in Crewe and driving away.
William Bratton was travelling along Macon Way in a white van when he hit Joshua Spender, 23.
The new A51 spine road around Reaseheath in Nantwich is unlikely to be open until mid-summer, it emerged today.
Delays to the opening, initially scheduled for February 2022, have been caused by concerns over lack of a crossing and suitable connected pathways between the town and Reaseheath College.
Developers are looking at open a new “park and ride” with filling station on land next to the A51 Burford crossing near Nantwich.
A “scoping opinion” application has been submitted for the proposed petrol filling station, coffee outlet
and 50-bay park ‘n’ ride with EV charging.
Stapeley councillors say funding has been secured for a new Puffin crossing on the busy Peter de Stapleigh Way.
It comes just weeks after a schoolboy was hit by a car using a drop-down kerb crossing.
Police probing the death of a Crewe man after a collision with a van have made an arrest.
Joshua Spender (pictured) 23, was crossing the pedestrian crossing outside McDonalds in Macon Way when a vehicle collided with him.
Council chiefs say they will carry out a “further review” of a controversial crossing in Nantwich where a teenage boy was injured by a car earlier this week.
The 17-year-old Brine Leas student was using the drop down kerb crossing over Peter de Stapleigh Way when he was hit by a car.
A teenage pupil was injured after being hit by a vehicle as he crossed the busy Peter De Stapleigh Way road in Nantwich.
The 17-year-old, believed to be a Brine Leas School student, was crossing at a cut-through from the Stapeley Gardens estate on his way to school when the accident happened.
Road safety campaigners in Willaston are celebrating after a new crossing was installed on busy Rope Lane.
Local councillors in Willaston and Rope have been fighting for the crossing for years.
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