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I have started thinking about my email to Cheshire East as the charges will surely be very bad for the local economy. I found the Rural Action Plan online. These brief extracts demonstrate that different parts of the Council don´t talk to each other.

"Positive planning allows rural communities to adapt and thrive.

The rural economy does not sit in isolation from other factors which can impact upon its growth, sustainability and resilience: Planning, affordable housing, public transport, access to health facilities, education, older people's services, fuel poverty, viable local services, character/quality of environment and community engagement are all part of an associated matrix.

Local services such as village shops, pubs and post offices are at the heart of functioning communities, as well as offering a lifeline to many vulnerable residents. Investment in local services not only benefits communities but also employee recruitment and new business development."

Eric Callwood's on the Whitchurch Road, are great for large bags of potatoes – and very accessible to the village. Last farm on the right, as you approach the Coole Lane (Overwater Marina) turn when leaving the village (large white farm house) – so less than a mile out of Audlem.

Interesting article on the BBC website this morning which might be of some interest to local residents. In the year to March 2023, the Home Office recorded 1.25 million cases of fraud. Just 4% were investigated and only 4000 cases ended up in court. Mmmm....

If they upped their game they wouldn't need to take the easy route of stinging the motorist:

Cheshire East Council dished out just 22 fixed penalty notices as 4,456 fly-tipping offences plagued the borough
Fly-tipping costs Cheshire East about £239,000 a year but the council has a 'dismal' record for dealing with it and issued just 22 fixed penalty notices for 4,456 offences, councillors heard.

Re kitchen fitter. Sorry I should have given my email address, I think!.?

lizziedrippingnb@gmail.com

Thanks Gloria

Hi, does anyone know where I, locally, can buy large bag of potatoes (56lbs)

MASSIVE THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE OF AUDLEM AND THE COOP for helping raise money to support our current community groups, Audlem Saints FC, Friends of Audlem School and Audlem and district community action. Today is the last day of fundraising for these fantastic causes. Watch this space for details of our new causes who you can begin fundraising for from tomorrow just by scanning your membership card every time you shop. THREE CHEERS FOR THESE AMAZING GROUPS�'�🏻�'�🏻�'�🏻

Couldn't agree more with Nigel's comments. We need some proper accountability. And before we get the excuse that the weather over the last two days has been exceptional, when we drove through the Swanbach flood last weekend my wife and I both thought it was worse than before CE's work and the same later in the week, both before the latest deluge.

When Iwrotemy previouspostto welcomeCarol aboardthe good ship, Audlem, I neglected to point out that we certainly need a ship to navigate the recent flooding problems!!, especially in Corbrook and Swanbach, it seems?

Is Corbrook passable this morning...by car ?

Bruce makes a very good point. Could CE, possibly Councillor Bailey, please advise what work was on the bill of works or job sheets for the recent road works at Corbrook A529 and Swanbach A529. I feel this should be aired publicly as I feel I'm not seeing value for money on my council tax.

After driving through umpteen floods yesterday I thought of a useful use for HS2, Drains instead of Trains..

The reason there's a dip at the old railway bridge at Swanbach is when the railway company constructed the railway they would have dug the road out to give height to the bridge instead of raising miles of track. Now there's no railway or bridge why not fill the dip back in to it's original level?

you are absolutely right Bruce. only one week after the supposed "fixing the issue" at Swanbatch the road flooded again.

I complained to the council and they sent me a letter stating they didnt consider it dangerous!! it is an utter joke. i have made so many complaints over the years but still no action. i have in the past had to go out in my hi-vis to slow the traffic down myself in torrential rain and some chose not to take my visual warning and then were shocked to find their reg plate floating in the water.

I don't care what the council say, it is dangerous and they need to fix it, whether that be sorting the drains out or heightening the road, but at least put a visual on the bridge wall of the depth.

Does anyone know what work CE Highways actually did recently in attempts to resolve the recurrent flooding at these two locations?
Does putting out Flood signs absolve CE Council from legal responsibility for any damage to vehicle engines etc from their failure to resolve the drainage problems over a period of several years?
The current rainfall is obviously exceptional but it's well known that it does not take much rain to cause flooding at Swanbach and Corbrook.

Hello, I have just had my en suite re fitted. The guy I used is a bathroom and kitchen fitter. I can highly recommend his work.
Email me and I'll let you have his details.
Gloria

I cannot believe it. they closed the road on Green lane where it is flooded to stop any more vehicles getting stranded and there is now a coach full of passengers stranded. he will have had to move the road closed sign to get to it and now his passengers are waiting for lifts to finally get home. the only vehicles getting through this flood are tractors.

No surprise to see all the usual floods again today. I would like to know how much money the wonderful Council wasted this time having spent weeks recently attending to the Corbrook and Swanbach dips with teams of workers, diggers, trucks a plenty, and the obligatory temporary traffic lights, only to make not one jot of difference. This pitiful shower couldn't fix a hole in a bucket properly and if they didn't continue to squander vast amounts of money so ineffectively just maybe we wouldn't have to endure continual extra charges like the brown bin fiasco and the proposed car parking charges, I despair of them.

New footbridge in bottom corner of turnpike field , over the swampy bit, has broken up into sections and floated away.

I have been in touch with Rachel Bailey and she has confirmed United Utilities will not shut the Woore Road for roadworks this evening as planned and it will remain open whilst other routes out of the village are closed due to flooding.

Further to the suggestion by Judy and others for A Song for Audlem, perhaps it could be extended to a concept album in view of recent events. Something similar to Flanders and Swan's "The Slow Train" with the line "the sleepers sleep at Audlem" could change to The Slow Drain. The gulleys gush at Audlem

It seems we are now a moated village with access in and out restricted by flood water despite the recent works carried out.
Should we consider declaring UDI from Cheshire East and becoming the Independent state of Audlem?
That would put paid to their parking charges and yellow lines!

Corbrook is well flooded. I just managed to get through in my Land Rover (2 hours ago) at which time a van was trying to revoer a Jaguar sports car that had 'drowned'! Probably much worse now.

I'd like to addmy greetingsand bestwishes together with a Thank you andGoodLuck to our newParish Clerk, Carol Bell. Ihopeshe isable to positively contribute to helping our Council navigate the stormy headwinds they are facing on our behalf!!Welcome aoard the good ship Audlem, Carol

so after closing Green lane at the Fjord for 5 days with 6 workmen working on "fixing" the flood and then having traffic lights posted for a further 3 days due to shoddy work and the road surface crumbling, we now have a serious flood here this morning and I know of at least 3 vehicle (4X4, van and truck) that have been stranded in it. The water is waist deep!
Police are too busy to close the road. This is the worst i have seen it in my 9 years living here.

What a waste of tax payers money to make the problem worse that it was before!