All welcome at Alsager Station Community Day on Tuesday 28 May 10am – 4pm.
Station Community Days are an opportunity for our station teams to meet new members of the local community and to get lots of jobs done all in one day. These include weeding, planting, painting and litter picking. All equipment will be provided, but please bring clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. No previous experience required! [Read more…]
Have you got your entry ready? Alsager Rotary, The Inner Wheel Club of Alsager and Tangent are running the Alsager Animal Safari and we need your help to make it a success.
The Safari is made up of two competitions, one for those entering an animal display, these can include pictures, models or a display of softs toys and the display needs to be suitably titled and the other competition is for those searching for the displays.
So get creative and do your own display for the Safari. The winners are voted for by the “hunters”. [Read more…]
A report by the Care Quality Commission has found one of the practices operating out of Kidsgrove Medical Centre on Mount Road to be inadequate.
The practice, Dr Robinson & Partners, have been placed in special measures and will be inspected again in six months, if insufficient improvements are made the providers could have their registration cancelled leading to a closure of the service.
In the report Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General Practice, states, [Read more…]
Stoke City council are to install a set of speed humps along Colclough Lane/Birchenwood Road between Goldenhill and Newchapel to slow down traffic on what has been become a ‘Rat Run’.
The country lane is narrow with some sharp bends and needs to be driven with care but many drivers using as it as a short cut avoiding the busier Tunstall Road, Biddulph Road, James Brindley Way route often exceed the 30mph speed limit and a number of accidents have resulted in the last few years. [Read more…]
Lidl Store
Lidl UK have submitted a planning application to bring a new store to Kidsgrove, on land just off Liverpool Road.
If approved the plans willsee the site currently used by Kidsgrove Working Men’s Club, and also home to The Canal Tavern, redeveloped into a new Lidl supermarket.
The Working Mens Club, which was founded in 1945 and in its heyday had over 800 members, would relocate to a new site on Meadows Road, close to the railway station in the town centre. Although The Canal Tavern would lose an area of land as part of the proposals, the pub itself would be retained while gaining from the additional footfall to the store and the overall regeneration of the site. [Read more…]
Work is underway to install new lifts and a footbridge at Kidsgrove station to ensure it’s accessible for everyone by spring 2019.
Network Rail has started work on the £5 million Kidsgrove ‘Access for All’ upgrade, which will transform the way passengers with all mobility needs use the railway. The vital upgrade will install three new lifts at either side of platforms 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as a brand new footbridge linking the platforms.
Campaigners have been calling for improvements to access for nearly 20 years as the only step-free access is to the Manchester-to-Stoke platform (1). [Read more…]
Property developer Persimmon are proposing to develop a site formerly occupied by Celestica in West Avenue, Butt Lane.
The site is currently identified as employment land, but hasn’t been occupied by a business for many years.
The proposals is not yet at the planning aplication stage and Persimmon are asking residents for their views before taking it further. A spokesman for Persimmon Homes North West said: “We are currently preparing a full planning application on a parcel of land to the north of West Avenue in Kidsgrove. [Read more…]
Two streets in Biddulph town centre are set to have parking charges introduced.
Staffs County Council considered the proposal of introducing on-street parking in the High Street and King Street, in Biddulph at the last meeting of the Prosperous Staffordshire Select Committee.
The aim of the proposal is to ensure that the parking provided in town centres and elsewhere are appropriate for the situation and support the needs of the local community. [Read more…]
Staffordshire County Council have accepted an offer from supermarket chain Aldi for the former Meadows Special School site on Tunstall Road.
An offer was made by Aldi Stores Limited in November which was increased in December. Minutes from a sub-committee meeting state: ‘The Sub-Committee received a report on discussions held with the proposed purchaser of the site of the former Meadows Special School explaining that whilst the site had not been advertised on the open market, the proposed Terms of the sale secured ancillary developments of value to the County Council.’ and that it was: ‘RESOLVED – That a conditional contract be entered into with Aldi Stores Limited for the sale of the site of the former Meadows Special School on the Terms indicated.’ [Read more…]
Fairtrade Fortnight 24th Feb-10th March.
Biddulph is a Fairtrade Town, and most of the local churches are Fairtrade Churches. How will you celebrate it this year?
Sadly, the Annual Town Hall Fairtrade Celebration is having a gap-year. But that doesn’t mean the Biddulph Fairtrade Town Group has nothing planned. Biddulph Schools have all been invited to take part in a Fairtrade Poetry Competition: each school may enter one or two original poems relating to Fairtrade. The competition will be judged by Biddulph Town Councillors and the school entering the winning poem will be presented with the Fairtrade Town School-of-the-Year Shield. [Read more…]