Cheshire East Council has outlined its planned works programme for highways in 2022-23.
The programme includes repairs and renovations on roads, paths and bridges in and around the Nantwich area as well as across the borough.
New “quality assurance officers” are to be used by Cheshire East Council to inspect work carried out on the borough’s roads.
The authority said it aims to improve the quality of highways repairs after mounting criticism about the state of the area’s roads.
Cheshire Police are advising residents not to travel tomorrow (February 18) as Storm Eunice is set to hit the county.
An Amber weather warning has been issued for Cheshire for most of Friday as powerful winds of up to 80mph and torrential rain is forecast.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council needs to invest as much as it can now to improve its highways to avoid closing unsafe roads in the future, a councillor warned.
It comes as the authority has included £7 million in its capital programme in 2022/3 for highways.
Works to prepare for the delivery of a major highways scheme near Leighton Hospital is underway – with the main works set to start by summer.
The North West Crewe Package (NWCP) will see a series of highways and junction improvements made to ease congestion and improve access to the hospital, as well as new and existing housing developments.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council chiefs are being urged to plough an extra £2.7 million into its highways budget amid claims the council has lost interest in looking after its transport infrastructure.
The highways and transport committee voted yesterday (January 13) to ask for the cash.
Council chiefs who withdrew a rural lane from its winter gritting route, today admitted they had to grit part of it after pressure from Cheshire Police.
Highways were called out by police after officers attended the latest in a series of accidents on Coole Lane, between Nantwich and Audlem.
Residents on Coole Lane in Nantwich have witnessed yet another accident in icy conditions after Cheshire East removed it from its gritting routes.
Freezing temperatures turned wet patches into treacherous ice on the rural route between Nantwich and Audlem earlier today
Police are hunting yobs who threw concrete blocks and bricks off a bridge over the A500 near Cheerbrook roundabout in Willaston.
They want witnesses to come forward who may have seen the potentially deadly acts between January 2 and 4.
Abuse aimed at Cheshire East highways staff is on the rise, the authority has warned.
Since April, there have been 37 incidents of staff reporting being abused by members of the public.
Dear Editor,
At its September meeting the Highways & Transport Committee rejected proposals for standardised parking zones across Cheshire East.
Whilst these might have introduced consistency across the borough, there were two main drivers
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Repairing Cheshire East’s roads will take a staggering 400 years if the investment from government continues at the same rate.
That’s the claim made by the chair of the highways committee at Cheshire East Council, Cllr Craig Browne.
Dear Editor
I have written to Nantwich News several times in recent years about my genuine fear roads in the village of Wistaston will become an accident blackspot due to the associated rise in traffic of several hundred occupants vehicles, due to two new, large housing estates: Wistaston Brook and Kingfisher Reach.
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