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Update 26. Febuary 2010 : 

The Cheshire Railings at the bottom of Acton Lane have been repaired and painted by Cheshire West & Chester Council - our thanks to them for tidying up this prominent entrance to our village!

Following repeated requests from concerned residents, a series of speed checks will be taking place within the village during the last week of January. A Speed Indicating Device (SID), manned by volunteers but with Police training, will display and record the speed of vehicles at strategic points on our roads. The data will be logged and passed to the Police for statistical purposes - and a car has already been measured at 49 MPH past the Parish Room!

Later in the year, a Speed Gun team will be taking details of speeding vehicles, and the registration numbers will be passed to the Police so that warning letters can be issued. Please treat this exercise with respect - it is for the safety and comfort of everyone.

The January 2010 Parish Council meeting took place on Monday, 11. January, at 7 pm with a Public Meeting to discuss local government reorganisation. We were pleased to see more than a dozen residents, as well as a full Parish Council and two of our three Cheshire West and Chester Councillors, Cllr Alan McKie and Cllr Ralph Oultram. The meeting fully endorsed the Parish Council's recommended alignment with Weaverham, and the rural villages to our west (Alvanley, Manley, Norley, Kingsley, Aston, Crowton, Dutton, and Sutton) but excluding Cuddington. Weaverham has our local schools, library, shops and Post Office, and is balanced by the essentially rural character of the villages along the Weaver Valley, which is important to residents for leisure and open space as well as having its own agricultural heritage.

You can read more about this matter on our new Boundary page, and you can read the Parish Council's letter to the Boundary Committee there. We would urge residents to write to the Boundary Committee expressing their own views and you can get the address and background information on the above page.

There's a new threat to our local environment - a giant wind turbine array is being proposed for the Frodsham Marshes. Once again, this is a Green Belt site - see the Peel Energy and Stop Frodsham Wind Farm campaign websites for details.

Pipelines approved - following the Planning Inquiry in the summer, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has overturned Cheshire West and Cheshire Council's refusal of planning permission for the King Street Underground Gas Storage and Pipeline projects, so planning permission will be granted. Click here for details.

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