News in Macclesfield

More than 3,000 new homes were built in Cheshire East in the last financial year – which is likely to put the borough among the highest performing areas in the country for house-building investment again.

From April 2019 to the end of March this year, 3,065 additional new homes were built in Cheshire East.

The final homes have been released for sale at a Jones Homes development which generated a £350,000 investment in Tytherington.

Construction work is nearing completion at the 184-home Kingsfield Park development off Larkwood Way, close to Tytherington Business Village.

A future coronavirus vaccine might need to be given every 12 months AstraZeneca - which has a large manufacturing base in Macclesfield - has told global business news network CNBC.

The pharmaceutical giant is one of several working on a potential coronavirus vaccine and AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot told CNBC's Squawk Box Europe yesterday (Thurs) that most companies are targeting two injections for the initial vaccination.

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Government housing agency Homes England has announced Barratt and David Wilson Homes North West as its preferred developer to provide 300 new homes at the former King's School campus at Fence Avenue, Macclesfield.

The scheme gained full planning approval yesterday (29 July) at Cheshire East Council's Strategic Planning Board and offers a wide range of open market and affordable homes.

Residents and visitors to Macclesfield will be dining out in style next month, as a number of local restaurants, pubs and cafés take part in the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

In a bid to boost the hospitality industry following the coronavirus lockdown, the unprecedented government scheme will allow people who dine out from Monday to Wednesday during August to benefit from 50 per cent off the price of their meals, up to the value of £10 a head, with the government reimbursing the restaurant the remaining 50 per cent.

Cheshire East Council is launching a new streamlined application process today (29th July), supporting Macclesfield businesses to introduce al fresco facilities.

This supports the council's overall approach in supporting their high streets, town centres and the hospitality sector as part of their economic recovery plan arising from the pandemic.

Macclesfield Beat Officers joined forces with Cheshire's Rural Crime Team and Staffordshire Police this week to tackle crime along the border between the two counties.

The forces were on patrol for Operation Folly on Monday night (27th July), and were on the lookout for everything from road traffic offences to poaching.

BBC broadcaster Nick Robinson has been appointed a Patron of East Cheshire Hospice where his late father was a patient.

Nick, who was born and bred in Macclesfield, has enjoyed a distinguished career in radio and television, presenting Radio 4's flagship Today programme since 2015.

Tytherington-based Tidy Planet is shipping its first composter to Australia to help a community farm divert up to 300kg of food and green waste from landfill each day.

The global partnership will see the organic waste and waste-to-energy solutions company's Rocket composter head over 17,000 km to Fish Creek in Victoria, and installed near not-for-profit Buckley Park Community Farm.