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Cogshall Lane closure 7/8 May 2024

Cheshire West & Chester Highways have issued a closure notice for carriageway repairs on 7th and 8th May, per the notice below. Please click on the image to navigate to page 2 to see the location and diversion route.

 

Senna Lane closure 2nd April

Cheshire West and Chester Council have advised that the bottom of Senna Lane, between Marbury Road and Cogshall Lane, will be closed during the day on Tuesday 2nd April. Please see the notice below.

Budworth Lane closure 8th March

Budworth Lane will be closed between Comberbach and Cock Lane on Friday 8th March while Cheshire West investigate a blocked drain. The notice below refers.

 

Creative Arts Grants available

CWVA, working with Cheshire West and Chester Council and Cheshire West Voluntary Arts Network (CWVAN), has launched round two of its Creative Arts Grants programme.

This programme, which has been made available through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), targets creative projects or activities aimed at supporting the following groups in Cheshire West.

  • Children and young people
  • Older people*
  • People with disabilities
  • People who aren’t in education, employment or training (NEET)
  • People in deprived areas*
  • People in rural parts of west Cheshire*

*Depending on the number of applications, preference will be given to projects involving these cohorts or in these areas.

View a map of deprived communities

Groups who were awarded funding in the previous round are welcome to re-apply, however, preference will be given to new applicants. 

There are two types of grants available.

  • Small grants – £200 to £1,000 (with a total of £20,000 available) – supporting grassroots groups to kickstart or pilot activities
  • Medium grants – £1,001 to £10,000 (with a total of £46,000 available) – enabling organisations to develop activities

Eligible project costs include the following.

  • Buying or hiring of materials and equipment essential to the project
  • Marketing and publicity to reach new groups, including printing costs
  • Venue or room hire
  • Technical costs
  • Refreshments (proportionate amount)
  • Creative development of groups (for example, practitioner support in line with Artists’ Union England rates)
  • Insurance (if this isn’t already held by the project delivery group)
  • Part salaries or sessional staff
  • Volunteer expenses
  • Overheads and core costs (proportionate amount)

Funding must be spent by end of March 2025.

Apply for small grants

Apply for medium grants

Fund opens 1 March and closes 12 noon on Thursday 28 March. 

Computer for Beginners course at Northwich Workzone

Marbury Road closure from 11th to 16th March

Cheshire West and Chester Council have issued the road closure notice below to advise resurfacing work will take place between 11th and 15th March on Marbury Road in Comberbach.

In addition, there will be a closure on 16th March for surface lining:

Cheshire Police Community Survey

Cheshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, John Dyer, has issued this note introducing a short survey on community priorities prior to setting the Precept for 2024/25:

Ahead of setting the police budget for 2024/25, I have launched a short survey to gather residents’ views on issues in their community and the level at which the police precept should be set.

The survey can be taken until midday on Tuesday 23 January at www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/policebudget202425/

People will rightly ask what difference does taking this survey and the amount we pay towards policing make. The answer: Lots. And this is detailed in the attached image.

Calls are being answered faster, incidents are being responded to quicker, there have been more arrests, more criminals charged and more ‘action taken’. Cheshire’s streets have more officers and fewer criminals on them. These are the basics of policing that people expect and in 2023 Cheshire Constabulary improved across all of them with the public’s support – So please do share this survey with your contacts and networks so that as many people as possible from all communities in Cheshire can have their say.

In addition to the survey, the latest edition of my Commissioner’s Review highlighting the work of my office in the final quarter of 2023 is available on my website here.

If you require any hard copies of either the survey or Commissioner’s Review, or if you have any accessibility requirements, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Freedom Fibre drop in session, 28th November

Please see the attached re a drop in session being held at the Methodist Church on 28th November.

This will allow residents to discuss any opportunities for full fibre to the premises through 2 broadband suppliers.

What’s On at West Cheshire Museums

Multi use games court refurbishment, 7th to 11th September

Please be aware the MUGA Court Multi Use Games Court at the Recreation Area at the Memorial Hall will be closed for use from Thursday 7th September until Monday 11th September, as Contractors will be on site Thursday and Friday to respray the court surface, and the new surface will require further time to set.

The area outside the MUGA court will remain open for swings etc, but no ball games can be played on the MUGA Court until at least Monday 11th.