News in Frodsham

If you're interested in keeping Frodsham's local community spaces looking neat, tidy and inviting, you might want to get involved with the Frodsham Station adoption team.

Created by North Cheshire Rail Users Group and Transport for Wales, this group of volunteers looks after the station gardens and floral displays, winning various awards over the years for their work.

El Misti, the band headed up by Kash 22's Paddy Bleakley, have this week been chatting to Robert Elms on his BBC Radio show.

During yesterday's programme, Elms played two El Misti tracks - 'Couldn't God Damn Someone Else' and '1983' - while talking with Paddy about the making of each song.

Covid-19 case numbers remain low in the Frodsham area for the moment, although infections rates are rising rapidly in other parts of the borough due to the Delta variant.

In the seven days leading up to June 5, there were three new coronavirus cases recorded in both Frodsham and Helsby wards, making for a rolling rate of 32 and 60 per 100,000 respectively.

A partial solar eclipse will apparently be visible from Frodsham and other parts of the North West this morning.

A quarter of the sun will be blocked by the moon in the largest partial solar eclipse since 2015.

A planning application has been submitted to convert the former William Hill shop on Church Street into a 'public house/wine bar or drinking establishment'.

If it does not become a bar, the application seeks to change the premises into a Class E development, that is, a retail, food and drink or professional services business.

Cheshire West and Chester Council leaders are urging residents to get vaccinated against Covid-19, as infection rates more than tripled over the past seven days.

It was only a few weeks ago that Cheshire West had the lowest level of infection of any local authority in mainland England, with a rolling rate of just five per 100,000.

Frodsham residents have until 11 June to comment on a planning application seeking to redevelop scrubland to the rear of Moor Lane to provide a four storey apartment building for retirement living.

The 69-apartment development would accommodate 120 bed spaces, 57 car parking spaces and landscaped gardens, as well as a flat and office for the complex warden, communal lounge, wellness studio, laundry room and mobility scooter store.

A Frodsham Town Council Amenities working group have agreed a proposal that would see the Green Gates area of Ship Street reinstated as a park and managed jointly by Frodsham Town Council and the Green Gates Community Project.

In September 2020, an options appraisal working group put forward several options for the future of Green Gates, which had at one stage been involved in loose plans for a 'land swap' with the Meadow Court retirement apartments complex, which would have seen the building of 22 homes on the park site.

A member of the team at Frodsham Costa Coffee is undertaking a 26 mile hike to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

In April 2020, Jasmine Sproston and her two sisters lost their mum to cancer at the age of 59.

Cheshire West and Chester Council Cabinet have approved a new Waste Management Strategy proposal that, if approved by full Council, will be in place for the next 10 years.

The proposal, which follows a public consultation on various options for waste collection in the borough, recommends the implementation of Option A, which would see household waste collected fortnightly and food waste weekly, as per the current arrangement.