Cheshire East has until end of July to submit more evidence in its fight to get a Local Plan recognised.
The new deadline has been set by planning inspectors to take account of the general and local elections.
Nantwich residents will have council tax bills frozen for at least the next two years, Cheshire East Council has agreed.
The local authority is the first in the country to announce a two-year freeze.
A Cheshire East Council director whose department presided over the much-criticised effort to deliver the Local Plan, is set to be promoted with a £30,000 pay rise.
Caroline Simpson (pictured) is set to move from “director of economic growth and prosperity” to “executive director of economic growth and prosperity”, according to a report.
Independent councillors say a motion calling for Cheshire East Council leaders to quit over the Local Plan fiasco has been blocked.
Councillor Arthur Moran, of Nantwich North, and Cllr Brendan Murphy constructed the motion to be tabled at a full council meeting this Thursday.
Opposition councillors have blasted Conservative-led Cheshire East Council over the growing number of housing appeal losses.
New figures show Cheshire East has lost a staggering 29 appeals in 2014 alone – four times the number they lost in 2012.
Cheshire East Council bosses have defended the £3.7 million spent on the Local Plan which has taken more than five years to put together.
Critics have attacked the authority for spending the amount after a planning inspector criticised the Plan for not addressing housing supply needs.
A housing developer wants to build another 118 homes on a farmland in Nantwich – just days after Cheshire East Council’s Local Plan was kicked into touch by an inspector.
Now furious councillors and residents are preparing for another fight to stop the latest proposals for land off Queens Drive.
Furious opposition councillors have called for Cheshire East Council heads to roll after figures revealed £3.7 million has been spent on the authority’s flawed Local Plan.
And the first casualty was unveiled today, as Cllr David Brown who has overseen the Plan since 2010 announced he is stepping aside.
A campaigner fighting to keep developers away from Stapeley and Nantwich says Cheshire East’s Local Plan delay will “inevitably lead” to more unsuitable developments.
Pat Cullen, who runs Protect Stapeley, has blasted council staff for failing after five years to get the Local Plan adopted.
A damning report by a Planning Inspector has told Cheshire East Council its long-awaited Local Plan is still not good enough to be adopted.
The blow, described as “regrettable” by council chiefs, was delivered by an inspector giving his “interim views” on the Plan’s soundness and legal compliance.
Nantwich residents can interrogate Cheshire East Council bosses on how robust they feel the new Local Plan is.
The Local Plan document sets out the council’s case for sustainable economic growth over the next 15 years.
Planning Minister Nick Boles has vowed to meet Nantwich and Crewe campaign groups fighting the loss of “Green Gap” areas. Mr Boles’ pledge comes after concerns of hundreds of residents were raised by local MP Edward Timpson.
Campaigners fighting to stop developers building on village land, took their battle to the streets of Nantwich. Members of Hands off Wistaston (HOW) held a street stall in the town square to highlight their fight to save Crewe and Nantwich “Green Gaps”.
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