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Please click on the link to view the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constables Update for March 2017.

Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constables Update March 2017

The Development of Arts Network offers all sorts of events in and around the Northwich area from music and drama to poetry reading and lectures  – they also provide activities for children.

Click in the link to see whats coming up DAN Events

Cheshire West and Chester Council are currently undertaking a Homelessness and housing related support services consultation.

To find out more information and have your say please click here for more details.

The twelve week consultation closes on 7 March 2017.

The final report completed by the Parking Working Party that complies the results of the village parking survey and outlines possible next steps regarding the parking issues in the village is now available for you to read, please click on the link below.

Final Parking Survey Report

There will be a public meeting held by the Parish Council on the 22nd February 2016 at 7.30pm in the Parish Hall offering residents the opportunity to comment on its findings to the Parish Council.

A small number of paper copies will be also be available in the Church.

A copy will be also be included in the next addition of the Budworth Bulletin.

If anyone is unable to attend the meeting but wishes to provide feedback on the results of the report please contact the Parish Clerk either by email at [email protected] or by telephone on 01606 259960.

Great Budworth Parish Council has today gone ‘live’ on Facebook and Twitter!

The Parish Council wants to be accessible to everyone and keep the people of Great Budworth informed on all the work they are undertaking on their behalf.

So, if you have a Facebook account search for Great Budworth Parish Council or on Twitter for Great Budworth PC then like and follow us.

A TRIO with more than 80 years of service to their village between them are retiring from council life this May.

Bob Wilkinson, Bill Anderson and Peter Davies are not standing for re-election to Great Budworth Parish Council.

Bob has been a councillor for more than 30 years, Bill for 35 years and Peter for 16 years.

“For me, 35 years is long enough,” Bill said.

Peter said: “I’m 80 so one of the reasons I want to step down is to hand it over to younger people with fresh ideas.”

Bob, 70, has a lifelong link with Great Budworth as his family moved to the village when he was just eight months old.

They lived on a farm in High Street before the current family farm, New Westage Farm, was built in Heath Lane in 1953.

He was following in the footsteps of his dad Roger when he joined the parish council.

Bill and Peter are relative newcomers to the village, with Bill moving to Great Budworth in 1965 and Peter in 1994.

Both Bill and Peter decided to join the council because of the community spirit in the village.

Peter said: “I came to the village in ’94 and the community spirit was always there and I just wanted to help to keep the village as it is.

“It’s such a social village and there’s so many things going on – there’s the tennis club, bowling club, gardening club, cricket club, WI, village hall, church – it’s very very busy.”

Bill and Bob have been involved with expanding the village hall over the years and one of Bill’s highlights is helping to work out how to repair the pump at the bottom of High Street and tracing the spring that feeds it.

Although they are standing down, the three will still be kept busy as Bob is chairman of the bowling club, Peter is treasurer for both the garden club and cricket club and Bill is the events organiser for the Friends of Arley.

Great Budworth Parish Council is the only parish council in the Northwich area which will hold an election on May 7 as there are 11 candidates standing for eight seats.

Bill, 75, said; “We wish all the new Councillors success and hope they enjoy it as much as we have.”