By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East has launched a new “falls prevention strategy” – just four days after councillors voted to consult the public on plans to switch off the street lights!
Around 2,275 people aged 65 and over in Cheshire East are admitted to hospital each year following a fall.
Plans by Cheshire East Council to turn off “a high proportion” of its 40,000 street lights to save money could increase crime and attacks on women, councillors warned.
The council is currently consulting in its budget proposals on plans to reduce the number and timing of street lighting in the borough from September.
A Nantwich headteacher is leading calls for council chiefs to switch street lights back on to boost safety.
Andrew Cliffe, head of Brine Leas Academy on Audlem Road, has twice written to Cheshire East Council raising concerns about streets plunged into darkness.
A Willaston councillor is calling for street lights along a busy route in the Nantwich village to be switched back on. Newcastle Road falls under the new Cheshire East Council initiative to switch off or reduce street lighting to cut costs.
The lights are going down in Nantwich as part of cost-cutting measures by Cheshire East Council. Street lighting is being removed and reduced on roads across the town and surrounding villages under new proposals.
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