Cllr Bryan (left) and Cllr Shore are members of CWAC s Labour cabinet CALLS have been made for two senior councillors to resign over their handling of Chester’s active travel lanes. They come after Cheshire West and Chester’s full council meeting voted last night (February 25) to ‘pause’ the lanes and ‘to commission further investigations into solutions to improve Active Travel’ in Upton and Boughton. At the meeting, Conservative Cllr Neil Sullivan called on Cllr Karen Shore and Cllr Matt Bryan to resign from their cabinet positions, with an online petition from the People Against Travel Lanes Chester campaign group echoing those sentiments.
Cheshire West is one of the country s biggest polluters – but work is taking place to change that A VISION to make Northwich, Winsford and the rest of Cheshire West carbon neutral in 24 years has been unveiled. Cheshire West and Chester Council s cabinet has approved a climate emergency response plan, which aims for the whole borough to be carbon neutral by 2045, while the council will try to achieve the same target itself by 2030. The borough is one of the highest carbon-emitting areas in the UK, but there is world-leading decarbonisation work going on, including major projects in the Cheshire Science Corridor.
By The Fly In The Ointment
As important as the issue of hunting
is, I think I’d prefer to see my council
park up this one for the time being and concentrate on its pandemic response I notice the vexed question of hunting is back on the agenda. From a personal point of view, I’m happy to say I’ve never really understood the desire to chase an animal to exhaustion before allowing it to be killed. I sort of go along with the famous Oscar Wilde quote describing fox hunting as: “The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.”
Currently, around one in three of all CWAC planning applications are for house extensions. It’s hoped that the new supplementary planning document approved at today’s (January 13) council cabinet meeting will make it easier for applicants to understand what is permitted in their area. Cllr Matt Bryan, cabinet member for housing, said: “One-third of our planning application is about house extensions. Many of the applications are submitted without professional support. “Our officers have wanted to get this in place for a while and we have been [collating] three support documents from legacy authorities into one document, which sets out to residents how house extensions can be done.