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Cheshire West and Chester Council has announced plans to increase tax by 4.99 per cent for 2021-22 – including three per cent for adult social care. The authority says it is facing a £30 million revenue funding gap in 2021-22 – plus a further £53.4 million black hole between April 2022 and March 2025. CWAC’s […]

CHESTER’S active travel lanes should be ‘paused’, according to the council’s Sustainable Travel Taskforce. The body said yesterday (Thursday, February 11) that the lanes, on the A51 in Boughton and A5116 in Upton, had not shown a significant increase in ‘safe cycling and walking’. ‘Pause’ does not mean the lanes will be dismantled entirely. Instead,

As the date is announced for the opening of a mass vaccination centre in Chester city centre, the Council is making sure help is at hand for people travelling in. The COVID-19 vaccination centre is set to open at Chester Racecourse on Tuesday, 16 February. The new centre will be able to deliver thousands of

Local authority leaders from North Wales, the Wirral and Cheshire West and Chester in the Growth Track 360 partnership have welcomed today’s announcement that the HS2 Phase 2a Act has passed into law. The Act enables extension of the new HS2 railway from Birmingham to Crewe, adding to the earlier Phase 1 Act which facilitated

Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Cabinet has set out its plan for the borough to become carbon neutral by 2045. At a meeting today (Wednesday, 10 February) Cabinet Members approved the Council’s Climate Emergency Response Plan which aims for the whole borough to be carbon neutral by 2045. The Cabinet also adopted its Carbon Management

Support for families over February half term As lockdown restrictions continue, Cheshire West and Chester Council is highlighting the range of support available to families over the upcoming February half-term week. The Council is working with partners, including the Welcome Network, to support children and families throughout the borough. A full list of all the

The first NHS large-scale COVID-19 mass vaccination centre in the borough is set to open at Chester Racecourse in mid-February. This new mass vaccination centre will be able to deliver thousands of COVID-19 vaccines every week to residents across the borough in key priority groups as part of the national vaccination programme. Leader of Cheshire

Date: 19 January 2021 Reference Number: 4981 Champions help connect communities during the pandemic Cheshire West and Chester Council’s network of community champions have been helping keep residents safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing important and trusted information with their communities. Around 350 community champions are now part of the network and these are a mix of

Date: 14 January 2021 Reference Number: 4974 Council invests in the future of Dee House The stabilisation of Dee House in Chester will be carried out this year, following a £500,000 investment from the Council. This work is the important first step in the development of the building and securing its long term future. It will enable

Date: 20 January 2021 Reference Number: 4984 Over 11,000 miles covered by rental e-scooters Chester residents have been trying out new rental e-scooters over the last few weeks and have already clocked up 11,226 miles from 3,776 journeys, the equivalent of nearly 13 trips from Land’s End to John o’ Groats. The trial to encourage greener travel