A traffic island installed on a busy Nantwich street to make it safer, has been blamed for a series of accidents. Now councillors are calling for the island, at the junction of Welsh Row and Queens Drive, to be removed – at the cost of £3,500.
By Jonathan White The circus has been in town again over the past week, entertaining hundreds of families. Circus Funtasia has been thrilling audiences at its big top on the car park of Nantwich Town FC on Waterlode sinceWednesday.
Busy Welsh Row in Nantwich is to be closed for up to two weeks for major works on a collapsed sewer. The closure will be from its junction with Waterlode to its junction with Taylor Drive.
River Weaver levels in Nantwich are continuing to rise after heavy rain and strong winds over the last week. These pictures by reader Jonathan White show the storm damage to trees by the river around Mill Island, Queen’s Drive and Waterlode.
A cyclist has been taken to hospital after a serious road accident on Waterlode in Nantwich.
The accident happened close to the turn off for Love Lane carpark, and police have had to close off the road in both directions.
Council planners look set to give a 240-home development on land in Nantwich the green light, despite objections. Gladman Developments want to build on land off Queen’s Drive, along with a children’s play area and convenience store.
The Environment Agency has issued a Flood Warning for the River Weaver through Nantwich. River levels along the Weaver’s catchment through the town to Shrewbridge Lodge are very high after heavy and persistent rain.
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.
A plan to build 1,100 homes on the Kingsley North site in Nantwich has more benefits than rival proposals, it was claimed. Reaseheath College principal Meredydd David joined agents to outline their plans to Nantwich Town Council.
These remarkable pictures show the extent of localised flooding in Nantwich after the River Weaver burst its banks. Sent in by Nantwichnews readers Jonathan White and Paul Radbone, the pictures show almost all paths along the river in the town centre are blocked off.
Nantwich Litter Group has been making a clean sweep of the town’s parks and streets in a bid to tidy up Nantwich for the summer. A recent “Group Pick” targeted Brookfield Park all the way through to the Morrisons carpark via Waterlode, Station Road and Pillory Street.
Two men were beaten up and one left unconscious in a serious assault near a Nantwich bar. One of the victims was left with a fractured eye socket in the attack close to Nakatcha’s on Welsh Row.
A Nantwich mum and her four children were left shaken after a van driver sped through red lights at a crossing, nearly knocking them down. Lorna Ellis believes the driver was on his phone and ignored the red lights as they crossed on Waterlode, close to Mill Street, Nantwich.
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