Parish Council Meeting Report

The following is a report on the Open Forum of the Tarvin Parish Council meeting held on Monday 26th February.

Residents identified inappropriate parking, particularly by HGVs, on the A54 near the entrances to Millside Close and the Co-op car park plus the difficulty turning into each from the centre of the road. The Parish Council (PC) will consider this at the next meeting as it was not on the agenda. In the meantime residents will provide photographs that illustrate the problem.

Other residents asked about the development off the A54 opposite ex-Cheshire Brick and Slate premises now used by Elite surfacing Ltd. The residents were told that the PC was unable to help as the site was not in the PC area but in Kelsall PC.

A resident asked when affordable houses would be built in the Parish. The Chairman had indicated that the PC would consider the matter as an agenda item at the next meeting.

Another resident asked how the HS2 bonus money for the north, announced that day, would be spent. The Chairman said that no decisions had been made and that it was a decision for Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC), not the PC. As far as he was aware the money would not start to flow until 2025/26 and be spread over 7 years.

The Chairman was able to inform the resident that in 2023/24, the current financial year, CWaC had received a £1.260m bonus following the cancellation of HS2 and so far one scheme in the Tarvin/Kelsall Ward would be funded from this pot of money, resurfacing Chester Road, Kelsall. In 2024/25 financial year a further £1.260m had been promised for potholes from the same source but as yet he had not seen a list of schemes.