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Cheshire East: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Cheshire East Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, North West. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000049.

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Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Cheshire East for 2026–27: £1,975.95 of a £2,454.87 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 6 opened (4 academy converter, 1 new provision, 1 academy free school), 6 closed (4 academy converter, 1 closure, 1 result of amalgamation/merger)

Alderley Edge Community Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Alderley Edge School for Girls — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Lower Peover CofE Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Macclesfield College (16 plus) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 31 July 2026
Malbank School and Sixth Form College (secondary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 December 2025
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 April 2026
Alderley Edge Community Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Cornerstone-Crewe — open; reason recorded: new provision, 18 September 2026
Kingsbourne Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy free school, 1 September 2026
Lower Peover CofE Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025
Malbank School and Sixth Form College (secondary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 January 2026
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 May 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Cheshire East reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Cheshire East: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£286.8 million
Highways and transport services	£29.8 million
Children's social care	£109.6 million
Adult social care	£215.4 million
Public health	£20.3 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£11.2 million
Cultural and related services	£26.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£43.9 million
Planning and development services	£13.9 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£11.6 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£768.7 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Cheshire East in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 421,298 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 44 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £29,202 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £646 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 17.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.2% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £309,121 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 7.3 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 66.0 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 64.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 6.5 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 83.7% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 123.4 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 19,755 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

82 seats in 2026. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of Labour and independents. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 32, Labour Party 28, Independent / Other 12, Residents of Wilmslow 4, Tytherington Ward Independents 2, Alderley Edge First 1, Reform UK 1, Liberal Democrats 1, Green Party (E&W) 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 82 councillors, by ward

Craig Browne (Alderley Edge First) — Alderley Edge
Brian Drake (Labour Party) — Alsager
Reg Kain (Reform UK) — Alsager
Rod Fletcher (Liberal Democrats) — Alsager
Rachel Bailey (Conservative and Unionist) — Audlem
John Place (Labour Party) — Bollington
Ken Edwards (Labour Party) — Bollington
John Wray (Conservative and Unionist) — Brereton Rural
Judy Snowball (Labour Party) — Broken Cross and Upton
Rob Vernon (Labour Party) — Broken Cross and Upton
Becky Posnett (Independent / Other) — Bunbury
Anthony Harrison (Conservative and Unionist) — Chelford
David Brown (Conservative and Unionist) — Congleton East
Rob Moreton (Independent / Other) — Congleton East
Sally Holland (Conservative and Unionist) — Congleton East
Emma Hall (Conservative and Unionist) — Congleton West
George Hayes (Conservative and Unionist) — Congleton West
Heather Seddon (Labour Party) — Congleton West
Roger Morris (Conservative and Unionist) — Crewe Central
Hazel Faddes (Labour Party) — Crewe East
Jill Rhodes (Labour Party) — Crewe East
Martin Edwards (Labour Party) — Crewe East
Joy Bratherton (Labour Party) — Crewe North
Dawn Clark (Labour Party) — Crewe South
Laura Smith (Independent / Other) — Crewe South
James Pratt (Conservative and Unionist) — Crewe St Barnabas
Ben Wye (Labour Party) — Crewe West
Marilyn Houston (Labour Party) — Crewe West
Andrew Kolker (Conservative and Unionist) — Dane Valley
Russell Chadwick (Conservative and Unionist) — Dane Valley
Sue Adams (Conservative and Unionist) — Disley
Lesley Smetham (Conservative and Unionist) — Gawsworth
John Smith (Independent / Other) — Handforth
Julie Smith (Independent / Other) — Handforth
Alison Heler (Conservative and Unionist) — Haslington
Steven Edgar (Conservative and Unionist) — Haslington
Kate Hague (Independent / Other) — High Legh
Peter Coan (Conservative and Unionist) — Knutsford
Stewart Gardiner (Conservative and Unionist) — Knutsford
Tony Dean (Conservative and Unionist) — Knutsford
Clair Chapman (Labour Party) — Leighton
John Knight (Green Party (E&W)) — Macclesfield Central
Liz Braithwaite (Labour Party) — Macclesfield Central
Mick Warren (Independent / Other) — Macclesfield East
Sarah Bennett-Wake (Labour Party) — Macclesfield Hurdsfield
Brian Puddicombe (Labour Party) — Macclesfield South
Fiona Wilson (Labour Party) — Macclesfield South
David Edwardes (Tytherington Ward Independents) — Macclesfield Tytherington
Emma Gilman (Tytherington Ward Independents) — Macclesfield Tytherington
Mary Brooks (Labour Party) — Macclesfield West and Ivy
Nick Mannion (Labour Party) — Macclesfield West and Ivy
Carol Bulman (Labour Party) — Middlewich
Garnet Marshall (Independent / Other) — Middlewich
John Bird (Independent / Other) — Middlewich
Hannah Moss (Conservative and Unionist) — Mobberley
Anna Burton (Labour Party) — Nantwich North and West
Arthur Moran (Independent / Other) — Nantwich North and West
Geoff Smith (Labour Party) — Nantwich South and Stapeley
John Priest (Labour Party) — Nantwich South and Stapeley
Liz Wardlaw (Conservative and Unionist) — Odd Rode
Patrick Redstone (Conservative and Unionist) — Odd Rode
Hayley Whitaker (Conservative and Unionist) — Poynton East and Pott Shrigley
Jos Saunders (Conservative and Unionist) — Poynton East and Pott Shrigley
Michael Beanland (Conservative and Unionist) — Poynton West and Adlington
Mike Sewart (Conservative and Unionist) — Poynton West and Adlington
Thelma Jackson (Conservative and Unionist) — Prestbury
Nicola Cook (Independent / Other) — Sandbach Elworth
Laura Crane (Labour Party) — Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock
Sam Corcoran (Labour Party) — Sandbach Heath and East
Mike Muldoon (Conservative and Unionist) — Sandbach Town
Linda Buchanan (Labour Party) — Shavington
Chris O'Leary (Conservative and Unionist) — Sutton
Allen Gage (Independent / Other) — Willaston and Rope
Lata Anderson (Residents of Wilmslow) — Wilmslow Dean Row
David Jefferay (Residents of Wilmslow) — Wilmslow East
Khumi Burton (Conservative and Unionist) — Wilmslow Lacey Green
Mark Goldsmith (Residents of Wilmslow) — Wilmslow West and Chorley
Michael Gorman (Residents of Wilmslow) — Wilmslow West and Chorley
Alan Coiley (Labour Party) — Wistaston
Margaret Simon (Conservative and Unionist) — Wistaston
James Pearson (Conservative and Unionist) — Wrenbury
Janet Clowes (Conservative and Unionist) — Wybunbury

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

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