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NANTWICH
LOCAL FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL 2003
Friday 26th September to Sunday 28th September
Our Food Festival focuses primarily on local and regional products:
those grown, reared or made within a 100 mile radius of Nantwich. The
quality and diversity of produce available within this region will surprise
and delight you - and encourage you to try new ingredients and flavours
in your own kitchen. Special events taking place over the weekend include:
a 60-stall Food and Drink Fair on the banks of the historic River Weaver
featuring "The Best of British", our famous "Made in
Cheshire" farmers' market with approximately 30 stalls, the 2nd
Nantwich CAMRA Beer Festival with over 50 local ales and ciders for
you to try.
Throughout the Festival there will be cookery demonstrations from celebrity
and local chefs, personal appearances by Television's Jonathan File
and Brian Mellor, interactive displays for children, food trails around
the town, special festival menus and much much more.
There will be countless opportunities to taste, discuss and buy the
foods and drinks on offer.
For further information, check out the web site
www.nantwichfoodfestival.co.uk
or call 01270 610983.
Bannatyne Fitness to open new fitness club
Bannatyne Fitness, Britain’s largest independent health club chain
is to open a new three-storey health club on land adjacent to Crewe
Business Park. Pochins have already started construction and the club
is scheduled to open in April 2003 and will provide luxury leisure facilities
on one of Crewe’s prime business sites. Around 30 jobs will be
created.
Fujitsu
IT giant Fujitsu is to employ 400 plus people in their new custom built
50,000 sq ft office building on Crewe Business Park, re-locating operations
from Kidsgrove. The new offices are set to open April 2003. Richard
Reed, the director of corporate infrastructure at Fujitsu said:
'We short listed six locations originally but Crewe Business Park was
the hot favourite and given the 'can do' approach from Cheshire County
Council and Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council we have clearly made
the right choice. We shall have up to 600 staff relocating to Crewe
early next year when we go operational and the new office will provide
'state of the art accommodation to continue to grow our business.'
Caldwell Communications
Caldwell Communications has acquired land, buildings and fronting on
Weston Road to expand existing operations within Crewe. 1,400 new jobs
will be created across the group as it expands its operations in Crewe,
Newcastle and Stoke.
Total Fitness
A new exercise, hydrotherapy and rehabilitation centre is to open in
May 2003, located on Macon Way. The centre includes a 25 metre swimming
pool amongst its attractions.
Eaton Street Leisure Development
Successful negotiations with commercial agents and developers have secured
the Eaton Street site for leisure uses. Work is set to begin soon with
the developers Liberty Properties plc set to transform the site into
a major leisure complex.
Manchester Metropolitan University
The University has confirmed plans to double the number of students
in Crewe from the existing level of 3,000 to 6,000 over the next five
years or so. The number of staff working in the town will also double
from 500 to 1,000.
New Luxury Hotel and Golf Club at Wychwood Park
Countryside Properties plc purchased a 714-acre site at Wychwood
Park, Weston, Crewe to develop a PGA European Tour Championship Golf
Course, a luxury residential development and a hotel and conference
complex. The Golf Course and Club House opened on 1st July 2002 and
are available for corporate golf days, training, conferences and functions.
The recently opened 108 bedroom hotel complex offers purpose built training
and meeting facilities for up to 250 delegates, together with leisure
facilities. Part of the Initial Services group, the hotel will employ
in the region of 80-100 staff. The residential development consists
of 500 houses split into five hamlets. These are high cost homes up
to £1 million and are firmly aimed at the and b social categories.
Community facilities, including a village hall and shop will also be
provided, together with formal landscaping to include waterscapes, green
spaces, country walks, play areas and public art.
Houses Built
The Council responded to consultation on the County Structure Plan
by arguing that the house building target for the Borough should increase
from 6,000 to 9,000 in the period 1986–2001. The Secretary of
State agreed to it being increased to 8,000. The Council then made representations
to the County Council on the next Structure Plan running to 2011 to
increase house-building numbers from 6,700 to 7,600. This was agreed
following the Borough Council’s representations. The result has
been housing-led population growth with the Borough population increasing
from 98,600 at the 1981 Census to the current figure of 111,006. The
housing stock has been transformed with around 500 new units constructed
each year. This has provided residents with access to dwellings constructed
to the highest current standards of energy efficiency and with the full
range of modern facilities.
Transport Links
The town looks set for continued economic growth as transport links
improve. A new £30 million bypass to the south of the town opens
in May this year affording faster links to the M6. With the confirmation
from the Strategic Rail Authority that the £9.7 billion investment
in the West Coast main line is to proceed, the future journey time to
London will come down to 100 minutes. Around 40 trains per day are anticipated.
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