enews from Cheshire West and Chester Council - 20 January 2023

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Cheshire West and Chester enews

20 January 2023

Council secures £13.3m to support transformation of Ellesmere Port

Statue of Fred and Ginger in Ellesmere Port

The Council has successfully secured £13.3m from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Levelling Up Fund to support the transformation of Ellesmere Port market hall and to help bring forward empty and underused sites in the town centre for new housing.

The funding also includes proposals to make it safer and easier to walk into town.

Council secures £13.3m


Winnington Bridge Corridor left out in tough Levelling Up competition

Coins of lots of different values lie flat against a ten pound note

This week, it was announced that Winnington Bridge Corridor has not received funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities' Levelling Up Fund.

 

Tough Levelling Up competition


You can now borrow an iPad from your local library

Ipad, keyboard and headphones

The Council's Libraries Service is launching an iPad lending scheme, which will allow residents to boost their digital skills by borrowing a device from their local library.

It will also make it easier for residents without their own technology to access a full range of Council services.

You can now borrow an iPad from your local library


Discover Your Roots, free family, and local history event

An older person seen from above looks through an album of sepia photos

Ever wanted to know more about your family's history, but don't know where to start? Or would you like to know who used to live in your house? Maybe you've wondered what your street looked like a hundred years ago, who lived there and what they did?

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, the Chester Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire and Hoole History and Heritage Society are hosting a free family and local history event at Hoole Community Centre tomorrow. 

Discover Your Roots


Poet Laureate comes to Ellesmere Port Library

Man with dark hair looks at camera

National Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has made Ellesmere Port Library the final stop on his 2023 leg of his ten-year Laureate's Library Tour.

He will be appearing at the free live poetry event on Thursday 23 March, from 7pm to 8pm, along with national Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane and two young poets from the town's Boaty Theatre Company and newly refurbished Theatre Porto.

Poet Laureate comes to Ellesmere Port Library


Animation of women reads Have you had a baby in the last 3 yrs?

Families with children aged under three are invited to share their experiences of infant feeding services.

The Cheshire West Infant Feeding survey is open until 15 February and results will be used to understand how well services are working to help families with infant feeding and where improvements might be needed.

Infant feeding consultation


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