News in Congleton

Harvest Celebration was very different this year at Buglawton Primary School as class assemblies replaced the usual gathering at St John's Church, Buglawton.

The usual delivering of harvest parcels to the local community was also replaced this year by pupils bringing in harvest donations that were donated to Congleton's foodbank - The Storehouse.

Rotary-Congleton's popular Swimathon will return to the town's Leisure Centre as soon as possible, says Rtn Eric Westwood.

The annual event is normally run every February and enjoys massive support from sponsored teams of swimmers from families, organisations and schools throughout the local area.

Congleton Town Council and neighbouring parish councils will be approaching local businesses to discuss sponsoring six new roundabouts, which are all gateways into the town.

The new Congleton Link Road will have six roundabouts which fall under neighbouring parish councils' boundaries, but not under the boundary of Congleton Town Council.

Congleton Town Council has been granted permission to turn land at the back of the town hall into a wildflower meadow area.

Speaking at Thursday's Congleton Town Council meeting of Town Hall, Assets and Services Committee, Ruth Burgess, streetscape development manager, confirmed the news.

Two Congleton businesses have introduced a 'pay it forward' initiative after being inspired by a local resident.

Both Bear Grills Cafe and Wild & Wild loved the initiative by Lelli Pixie that much, they have decided to introduce the idea at their businesses.

Specialist conservation companies have determined that two of the three statues of historic figures that looked down from the Congleton Town Hall for almost 150 years are beyond repair.

The stone figures of Queen Victoria, King Edward I and Henry de Lacy, who granted the town's first charter in 1272, were installed at the front of the town hall in 1866.

The majority of councillors supported the prospect of having a £13,000 conference system installed at Congleton Town Hall, which would allow future hybrid meetings and potential bookings to take place both in person and virtually.

Congleton Town Council committee meetings are traditionally conducted face-to-face, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, meetings of a face-to-face nature were unable to take place.

It is hoped that the refurbishment of Congleton's Cenotaph will be completed by the end of October and be ready for Remembrance Day.

The Congleton Cenotaph is being refurbished to add the missing circa 239 names of the fallen to the plaques, taking the total names to 590.

With Congleton's town centre set to be sprinkled with more attractive decorations this year, the town council will pursue having Christmas lights on the front of the Congleton Town Hall.

Whilst the town council's Christmas Working Group was looking at Christmas Lights for the town centre, one of the companies quoted forwarded a proposal to light up the front of the town hall.

Missed bin collections in Cheshire East almost trebled last year, the LDRS can reveal.

A freedom of information request to the council showed that 21,340 collections were missed in 2019-20, compared to 7,182 the year before.