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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

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