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Plans are underway to bring some colour to Middlewich verges in the form of wildflowers. A pot of £500 has been set aside from the Town Council chairman s fund to spend on sowing native seeds at strategic points around Middlewich. Council chairman Cllr Mike Hunter said:“Middlewich residents are taking a lead in improving our environment and the way the town looks. We are delighted that the council can help this fantastic initiative. We welcome not only human visitors but wild ones too.” Local volunteers have formed a group called Middlewich Flowering Meadows, whose aim is to plant wild flowers in and around Middlewich, creating floral gateways into the town.
PLANNING officers have voted overwhelmingly to refuse an application from a housing developer to open up a already busy lane in Middlewich to construction traffic, saying it poses a road safety risk. In a strongly worded riposte to the application, Cllr Mike Hunter, Chair of Cheshire East Council s Strategic Planning Board, said accepting the plan would be dangerous and that he wasn t prepared for the developers to ride roughshod over the council and its authority. Seven members of the committee voted to refuse the application, which would have allowed construction traffic to use Warmington Lane to access the Taylor Wimpey site Glebe Farm site.