By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council has been forced to scrap plans for an alternative provision school in Crewe because the DfE won’t engage with the council over a timeline for the scheme.
The children and families committee voted in favour of pulling the plug on plans to demolish the former Crewe Baths at Flag Lane and replace it with a school for excluded pupils.
Dear Editor,
Cheshire East have dropped plans to build a school on the site of the historic, Art Deco, 1937 Crewe Baths.
#SaveCreweBaths want to re-open Crewe Baths bigger and better and #CreweFirst have been supporting them from the word go.
Cheshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was seriously injured in a collision with an e-bike which failed to stop at the scene.
The victim, a woman in her 50s, was on the pedestrian crossing on Flag Lane in Crewe near to St Mary’s Street when she was hit by someone on a Sur-Ron style electric motorbike.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is expected to press ahead with plans which would see the former Flag Lane Baths bulldozed to make way for an alternative provision school.
The initial proposal by the Always Ahead charity to transform the Crewe building into a community hub was abandoned earlier this year.
Dear Editor,
Sadly, Labour-run Cheshire East Council have NOT said they will preserve the Art Deco front of the building.
Flag Lane Baths is a rare example in the UK of an Art Deco swimming pool but Cheshire East have only said they will ‘press’ for the façade of the former baths to be kept as part of any development.
Dear Editor,
The old Crewe Baths in Flag Lane have now been abandoned for EIGHT YEARS and they are in a deplorable state.
It is an art deco, listed building that is part of Crewe’s heritage and history.
Three men have been arrested by detectives in Crewe on suspicion of drug offences.
The men, aged 27, 29 and 44, were seen acting suspiciously in an alleyway on Flag Lane at around 3.30pm on Thursday (October 6).
Crewe will benefit from a £22.9 million Government grant as part of the new Town Deal scheme.
Politicians welcomed the news today as further funding to help revamp the town, including transforming facilities like the former Flag Lane Baths, Cumberland Arena and Mirion Street Youth Club.
A man was seriously injured after being attacked by a gang of five teenagers in Crewe, detectives say.
The victim, a 50-year-old man from the town, is in hospital after the incident in Flag Lane.
Detectives have charged two men with firearm offences in connection with an incident in Crewe.
Kenneth Stevenson, of Flag Lane, in Crewe, was arrested on Wednesday April 29.
Roads around Flag Lane in Crewe have re-opened after police talked a man down from the roof of the former swimming baths.
A 24-year-old man was in a stand-off with police for almost seven hours as he stayed on the roof between 7am and 2pm.
Police are hunting a robber who attacked a 19-year-old man in a South Cheshire alleyway.
The victim was dragged to the ground and had his MP3 player and mobile phone stolen in the incident on Flag Lane, Crewe.
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