BERA News

A reminder to complete an online consultation survey on recycling and waste disposal in the borough. Closing date is this Thursday. The link is Don’t let your future go to waste | Participate Now (cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk) . The desire to reduce costs is the driving factor behind the proposals for a reduced frequency of collection and the introduction […]

Cheshire West and Chester Council has been awarded £1.075m from the Government’s Rural Mobility Fund for a three-year trial of an innovative public transport service for residents living in rural and suburban areas. Instead of being a bus service operating along a fixed route, the trial will be based on a service with a flexible

Cheshire West and Chester Council has secured a significant boost towards its ambitious target date of 2030 to achieve carbon neutrality for the Council’s own emissions, as well as a carbon neutral borough by 2045. Council company Qwest Services, in partnership with the Council, has secured £5,836,172 from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), which

Please find details of free personal protective equipment (PPE) for unpaid carers across Cheshire, who do not live with the person they care for. All the details can be found here: https://www.yourwestcheshire.co.uk/NewsArticle/%7BC5135A4B-00AC-4D76-8360-FA159EF5ACC6%7D  Any help you are able to provide in publicising this offer to those who you think may benefit will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Date: 11 March 2021 Reference Number: 5078 Council increases opening hours at some Household Waste Recycling Centres Cheshire West and Chester Council is extending the opening hours of its larger Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) from 12 March 2021. All HWRCs are currently open to the public for essential journeys only but demand has been high and

As part of the current works in the city centre to install a new surface rainwater drain to a river outfall along Castle Drive, the following closure will take place: Nuns Road will close on Monday 29th March 2021 and is expected to reopen in January 2022, this is to allow for significant drain shaft works

The latest edition of our Northgate Newsletter is now available, with updates on the progress of the main site and the drainage tunnel. Available via the Northgate website here: For the latest aerial video of the site click here. Regards Andrew Andrew Arditti Communications Manager – Northgate ProgrammeCheshire West and Chester Council

A gas mains replacement scheme will begin in Hoole this week at the junction of Hamilton Street and Newton Lane. Hamilton Street will be closed to through traffic from Monday 22 February and the work will then progress on to Hoole Road and Newton Lane from 1 March. Gas company, Cadent, is under instruction from

Cheshire West and Chester Council is pausing the trial Emergency Active Travel lanes that have been in operation for the past five months in Chester, after listening to the recommendations from the independent Sustainable Transport Task Force that has been analysing their use. The Council introduced two new trial Emergency Active Travel lanes in Chester

An urgent recruitment drive has been launched across the North West for adult care workers to help care for Cheshire West and Chester’s most vulnerable at home and in care homes. The Care Hero Campaign – which originally launched in April 2020 at the peak of the first Covid-19 wave – highlights the staffing crisis