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By Phil McCann
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image captionLex Greensill was an unpaid adviser to then Prime Minister David Cameron
A deal for the financier Lex Greensill to buy 500 acres of council-owned Cheshire farmland has been paused due to the Westminster lobbying row surrounding his firm.
Cheshire West and Chester Council said auditors would review the transaction to ensure it acted with integrity .
Mr Greensill planned to create a natural sanctuary for wildlife in his home village of Saughall near Chester.
Councillors approved the sale in February but it has not completed.
Mr Greensill s firm Greensill Capital is at the centre of a row about access, influence and lobbying that has engulfed Westminster.
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BUILDING work is underway on a new village hall serving five communities near Chester. The £1m project to create the new Mollington, Backford & District Village Hall is due to be completed by June this year. The new community hub, serving Mollington, Backford, Chorlton, Caughall and Lea-by-Backford, will replace the original hall built in 1950 at the same site on Station Road in Lea-by-Backford. The National Lottery Community Fund awarded more than £640,000 with further financial support provided by many other funders, both local and national, as well as private donors. The current village hall, which will be demolished once the new build is complete, has been in constant use for decades as a meeting place for social, cultural, sporting and educational activities.
PLANS to create a day care facility for dogs in a Chester village have been given the green light. The change of use application for the existing Footgolf building at Mollington Grange Business Park in Parkgate Road has been approved by Cheshire West and Chester Council on a 12-month trial basis. As part of the conditions for granting planning permission, there should not be more than eight dogs on the site at any one time. The facility can only open between the hours of 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays. The council says limiting planning consent to a 12-month period will enable it to monitor the impact of any noise on neighbouring amenities, including an adjoining care home.