News in Alsager

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Cheshire East is to remain in tier two over the Christmas holiday period, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.

Rates of infection are currently at 119 cases per 100,000 for the borough in the most recent data.

Two new benches will be installed at a park in Alsager following a successful grant request.

A community group submitted a £905 grant request to Alsager Town Council to facilitate the purchase of the benches at Wayside Linley Park.

Plans for a motocross circuit have been knocked back as it would represent a "harmful visual intrusion" and "encroachment" into the open countryside.

Mr Boote submitted a retrospective planning application to Cheshire East Council for the change of use at land east of Chells Hill (B5078), Rode Heath, to a motocross circuit on an intermittent basis.

The chair of Alsager Town Council had to repeatedly remind councillors to treat each other with respect, following accusations that councillors were subject to slanderous comments online from their fellow elected representatives.

Cllr Michael Unett was amongst several councillors, who recently felt they could not decide on the Alsager Partnership's funding request, due to the conflicting information and difference in opinion coming from both the organisation and the Partnership Review Panel.

Residents who live near an industrial estate in Alsager have called on the local authorities to act and improve their "quality of life".

Ian Scott, who was representing eight other neighbours who also live on Fields Road, Alsager, expressed his concerns to Alsager Town Council regarding the Excalibur Industrial Trading Estate.

The level crossing by Alsager Station has now reopened to all traffic.

Network Rail had been on the scene at Audley Road, Alsager, making sure the barriers were in safe working condition as quick as possible.

Due to an incident affecting the barriers at Alsager Station, the level crossing is currently closed.

Network Rail are now on the scene at Audley Road, Alsager, and are hoping to get the barriers into working condition soon.

The Alsager Partnership Review Panel has once again recommended that the organisation receives no further funding for the remainder of this year and the town council match funds an £8,000 grant for 2021/22.

Nub News previously reported that following calls for the review panel to be dissolved after a report from a ChALC representative was claimed to be a "mistake", panel members called for an emergency meeting to be held to discuss the organisation's funding for the remainder of this financial year and their grant request for 2021/22.

A town council working group hopes to start the first phase of a joint use open space regeneration project in Alsager next summer.

The objective of Alsager Town Council's Cedar Avenue joint use open space working group is to improve an area of open space in Alsager, which follows public footpath No 10 (a public right of way) and lies between the Valley Brook and houses at Hall Drive Park and Cedar Avenue.