Alsager Sixth Form College capped off its best ever year by celebrating the achievements of former students at its annual Presentation Evening.  [Read more…]

Draft plans and designs for the proposed new community fire station in Brookhouse Road, Alsager, have been unveiled by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service. 

The building of a new fire station in Alsager is part of a comprehensive plan to improve response times across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington. [Read more…]

The people of Alsager responded with outstanding generosity to a collection held on 22^nd and 23^rd November. Rotary Club of Alsager, Alsager Lions, Round Table and the Alsager Scout and Guide groups collected together, as they did in 2002 following the Indian Ocean Tsunami. [Read more…]

Next year’s Alsager Music Festival will take place on Saturday 12th July 2014.

With a similar theme to the hugely successful festival earlier this year, we are asking for bands, artists and DJs to come forward and get involved in next year’s event. We are aiming to finalise the line-up by the middle of February, so the closing date for applications is January 31st 2014. In addition, we are looking for new people to come forward and join in the organising team, so don’t be shy, contact us and help make the festival better than ever.

You can find out more details at our website www.alsagermusicfestival.co.uk and send your details in via one of the following methods:

www.facebook.com/AlsagerMusicFestival

twitter @alsagermusicfst

email to info@alsagermusicfestival.co.uk

Alsager Station has won an award for the best small community project in the Community Rail Awards

The ‘Bee Friendly project’ at Alsager Station is a partnership initiative which is helping to sustain wildlife by providing pollinating plants and bee boxes within the station gardens.

The Community Rail Awards is an annual awards event run by ACoRP (the Association of Community Rail Partnerships).  They were set up in 2005 so that the unsung heroes and heroines of the community rail world would have their hard work and dedication publicly recognised and rewarded.

For more information about the ACoRP awards, visit www.acorp.uk.com.

Cheshire East are again urging people to give their views on the Local Plan.

The Local Plan guides development and defines how planning applications are dealt with until 2030. It sets the overall planning strategy, allocates sites for development and contains planning policies which aim to ensure that new development contributes to the economic, environmental and social needs of the Borough.

For Alsager the Local Plan is very important. [Read more…]

Cheshire East Council are changing the way leisure services are delivered by forming a new trust to run leisure centres in the region.

The new ‘Everybody Sport & Recreation Trust’ will be responsible for running sports facilities and swimming pools in the area including Alsager. [Read more…]

Fiona Bruce MP continues to fight for her constituents on planning issues in Parliament. Speaking in a debate in Parliament on Planning and the Housing Supply Fiona Bruce once again championed her constituents fight for the protection of our greenspaces and for locally determined planning.

Below are some extracts of her speech relating to Alsager: [Read more…]

Plans to build 155 new houses off Sandbach Road North have again been rejected by Cheshire East Council. [Read more…]

A new planning application has been submitted to develop the former Caradon Twyfords site in Lawton Road by Sainsburys.

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