A Conservative Amendment brings forward additional highways spending for the next three years. At the Corporate Policy Committee last week, Councillors acknowledged that Cheshire East Council needs to invest more in its largest asset, the highways network.
It’s ‘Budget’ time again at Cheshire East! Public consultations are over, last year’s performances have been checked and new budget proposals examined.
Chorlton Lane has been closed for seven weeks by National Grid Gas as they divert the mains gas pipeline in preparation for HS2a. This is a Section 17 application which means that it has already been passed via the HS2a Hibrid Bill that received Royal Assent last February.
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.