Information on the new recycling and waste collection service is in the document below.

Cheshire West and Chester Council is consulting on the potential enforcement of moving traffic restrictions e.g. one way only, no right turn and weight limits.  Currently, the Police enforce these restrictions in person, but the Government is now giving local authorities the option to apply for powers to enforce moving traffic restrictions using ANPR cameras under a civil enforcement regime.
Cheshire West and Chester Council has not made a decision whether to adopt these powers yet.  However, if the Council were to apply for powers, cameras could be used to enforce moving traffic restrictions at priority locations across the Borough with known road safety and congestion concerns, for the benefit of residents and businesses.  A list of 13 sites are suggested in Chester, Ellesmere Port and Vale Royal. 
We would like to hear your views before the consultation ends on Wednesday 8 June 2022. 
For more information and to share your feedback please visit:
https://inside.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/get_involved/consultations/seeking_views_regarding_the_future_enforcement_of_moving_traffic_restrictions_in_cheshire_west_and_chester

A reminder that CWAC are now charging a separate fee for green bin collection. Sign up online:
cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/gardenwastecollection

Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council have advised us of a temporary road closure to Moor Lane in Lower Kinnerton to allow works to be carried out by Severn Trent Water.  For more details see the pdf below.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Dodleston Parish Council has been successful in a bid to purchase equipment and training as part of the "Community Speed Watch Scheme" and we now need volunteers to take part in using the kit and help reduce speeding throughout our community.

Volunteers will need to be trained to use the equipment and we have secured two dates from Cheshire West and Chester Council to deliver the Community Speed Watch Scheme training via Microsoft Teams.

We are now looking for volunteers, living in our Parish, to help us deliver the scheme. It would be fantastic to have a good pool of volunteers living in all of our communities - Dodleston, Lower Kinnerton, Balderton and Gorstella and elsewhere in our Parish.

We need your contact details to enable us to send you the virtual training link as well as to set up our database. All information provided will be treated confidentially.
If you are interested in taking part please complete the short survey at the link below.
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https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RSM73LG

Thanks
Mike Maughan
Dodleston Parish Council

A consultation is currently underway to develop a new solar farm at Bretton Hall, Chester Road, Flintshire, CH4 0DF.  More details an be found on the website, where you can also provide feedback.  http://www.brettonhallsolar.co.uk

In addition to this,  the group concerned are also running a couple of consultation events via Zoom, where you will be able to hear short presentations from some of the people leading on the project, and also have an opportunity to ask them questions directly. These are scheduled to take place as follows;
7pm Tuesday 19th January 2021
2pm Thursday 21st January 2021
You can book for these events by pre-registering and sending an email to
post@brettonhallsolar.co.uk stating which of the events you’d like to take part in.

Please see the briefing sheet below for further details.​

As a Parish Council we made the decision to immediately respond to the food poverty crisis by setting up a local, accessible collection point here in Dodleston. The donated food will be taken over to West Cheshire Food Bank, which is part of The Trussell Trust.  Regular updates via our Facebook page and webpages will be published to give those that would like to donate to this cause, more information.
We would like the drop-off point to be accessible and make it easy to donate, so until further notice, will use the following address:
12 Egerton Walk
Dodleston

Please leave any donations in the red box to the right by the front door. Donated food will be taken to West Cheshire Food Bank on either a weekly or fortnightly basis (depending on the number of donations). Donations can be dropped off at any time during the day, 7 days a week. Any donation would be welcomed but if you would like to donate the most needed items, look at this list on a weekly basis.
 
With businesses closing and jobs lost, the pandemic has put an unparalleled strain on Foodbanks here in Britain and families are struggling to keep their heads above water.
Figures from June showed that demand is greater than ever – an 89% rise for The Trussell Trust, the UK’s biggest food bank network, while the Independent Food Aid Network, which has around 350 food banks, saw a 175% increase in requests for emergency parcels. We expect that this figure will rise steeply in the coming months as the Furlough scheme ends to be replaced by a lower level scheme and more businesses are closing their doors. And we have Christmas around the corner.
Here are more statistics on the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on food banks:

• An 89% increase in the number of food parcels distributed - up from 81% in the second half of March
• A 67% increase in the number of household referrals to food banks – up from 48% in the second half of March
• A 107% increase in the number of children needing support from a food bank in April 2020 compared to April 2019
• An increase in the number of families with children receiving food parcels, up from 33% in April 2019 to 38% in April 2020
• A significant increase in need for food bank support across the UK in April 2020 compared to April 2019, but with variations across the country, from a 47% rise in Scotland to one of 142% in Northern Ireland
• For each of these figures there is a person – a mother struggling to feed her children, a nursing assistant who can no longer afford to put food on the table, professionals who have slipped through the net of government employment support. The list goes on. 

If you need help from the Food Bank, there are a few simple steps to follow. The most important step is to get a foodbank referral. More information can be found here on how to access the foodbank.

To enable safe social distancing for students using public transport to and from school, Cheshire West and Chester Council have confirmed that an additional bus will run from Dodleston to support the current 61 service. 
The new S61 will be for the exclusive use of students attending Bishops’ Blue Coat High School and will depart a few minutes earlier.  This service will also run in the afternoon at the end school.  Students attending other schools should wait for the normal 61 service, which will be quieter as a result. 
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The timetable for the new S61 service is given below.  The 61 service will continue as usual.

After applying in June 2019, the Parish Council was awarded a grant to improve the sport field by developing an outdoor gym as well as surfacing the perimeter pathway. The Outdoor Gym was completed during the first week of December but unfortunately the extremely poor weather over Autumn and Winter meant that the path surfacing needed to be postponed…. and then the pandemic set in.
 
We’ve now had the good news that the contractor is able to start the work on the perimeter path as from Monday 15 June. Due to the nature of the work and the surface material, it will require an initial partial closure of the foot path for two weeks whilst the works are being done. After the works have been completed the path surface material needs to harden, which can take around 2 weeks. We will be asking users to avoid using the path to allow this to happen.
 
Please bear these restrictions in mind when you use the sports field as from Monday 15 June.
 
We are sorry for the inconvenience but hope the results will be worth the wait and patience.