Cheshire East Councillors are being asked to give their backing for Crewe to bid to become the home of Great British Railways.

Supported by Cllr Mike Benson, Sandbach resident Ann Nevitt together with neighbours Philip Brooks and David Poole, travelled to Macclesfield today to present their petition of nearly 6,000 signatures to members of the Environment and Communities Committee asking Cheshire East Council to sanction

Application 20/1132N for the removal of Condition 9 that would permit 24/7 operating hours. 365 days per year, at the Weston Hall Roundabout site at Weston was REFUSED at Southern Planning Committee today. Whilst one member abstained, the rest of the Committee was unanimous in its decision

Cheshire East Conservatives welcome the opening of the £90m Congleton Link Road - the culmination of the project they launched in 2012. The 5.5km route opened this weekend for walkers and cyclists before its formal opening for traffic on Monday 19th April.

It’s two years since Cheshire East Council voted to move from a Cabinet  to a Committee System of Governance. Now just five weeks away from the switch-over date at the Annual Council Meeting on 12th May, Conservative Group Leader, Janet Clowes, considers progress to date:

Cllr Janet Clowes (Conservative Group Leader) has raised the issue of Planning Enforcement both at Cabinet in January and at Full Council last week seeking answers to residents’ concerns that Cheshire East has failed to address for years. 

In a recent article, she explains:

CHESHIRE East councillors are set to be handed a Ward Budget of £4,200 each to tackle issues like potholes from April in exchange for the established Local Area Highways Fund.

In 1796, Edward Jenner (a country surgeon) inoculated  a child with cowpox (vaccinia), having noted that dairymaids who had had cowpox were immune to the more lethal and disfiguring smallpox.

At December’s full Council Meeting, there was a full and thorough cross-party debate where the simplistic Notice of Motion as proposed by Independent Cllr Akers-Smith was challenged from the outset by her member peers from all Parties (including her own).

As 2020 draws to a close, Cllr Janet Clowes (Conservative Group Leader), reflects both on an extraordinarily difficult year, where Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on us all and the lessons learned as we move towards 2021: