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Chester Drainage Tunnel Update – Nuns Road Closure from 29th March 2021

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 […]

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Chester Northgate Update – February 2021 – Drainage Tunnel Update

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

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Trial Emergency Active Travel lanes in Chester paused

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

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Chester active travel lanes should be ‘paused’ says taskforce

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,

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Growth Track 360: Welcomes Royal Assent for HS2 Phase 2a Act (West Midlands to Crewe); and Calls for next HS2 Hybrid Bill to provide connectivity for the region

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

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Council launches plan for the borough to be carbon neutral by 2045

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

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