Transport Strategy in Cheshire East
Vision for Transport: live consultation
Work is under way to update our Local Transport Plan. Between Monday 24 February and Monday 21 April 2025, we invite you to submit your views on Cheshire East’s Vision for Transport.
Why we need a new plan
Transport and travel play a crucial role in our everyday lives. To ensure our continued success and prosperity, we need to plan a transport network that is fit for the future – one that connects people to jobs, education, healthcare, and leisure facilities, while supporting a healthier and more sustainable environment.
Since our current Local Transport Plan (LTP) was adopted in 2019, there has been considerable change in transport movements and trends. So, now is the right time to update our plan to ensure that the council maintains a policy framework that is robust and relevant to the needs of Cheshire East.
Get involved
As this is just the start of the process, we really want to know what you think about our work to date. Have we identified the right transport challenges and opportunities, and does our vision for Cheshire East meet with your expectations?
Your consultation feedback is important to help us refine our vision and create a transport strategy that truly reflects the needs and aspirations you want from Cheshire East. Together, we can deliver a better transport system for the future.
To submit your views
View the consultation brochure (PDF, 3.4MB), then:
The consultation will close at 11.59pm on Monday 21 April 2025.
Paper copies and alternative formats
If you are not able to complete the consultation online, paper copies of the questionnaires and brochures are available at our libraries and leisure centres. You can also request these materials by calling 0300 123 5500, or write to us at Research and Consultation, Cheshire East Council, 4th Floor, Delamere House, Crewe, CW1 2LL.
If you would like to receive any consultation material in an alternative format, email: ceconsultation@cheshireeast.gov.uk.
What's happened so far
In January 2025, the Cheshire East Highways and Transport Committee discussed the proposals and gave approval to launch a consultation on the draft vision for transport. To view an outline of work completed to date, including the vision and objectives summary, detailed evidence base report and an Equality Impact Assessment, see the minutes of the committee meeting.
Local Transport Plan 2019-2024
Cheshire East Council’s Local Transport Plan 2019 - 2024 (LTP) was adopted in October 2019. The strategy considers all forms of transport over the 5-year period of 2019-2024. It is a framework for how transport will support wider policies to improve our economy, protect our environment and make attractive places to live, work and play. The LTP outlines the role transport will play in supporting the long term goals of Cheshire East.
As part of the LTP the council is taking a range of actions across the borough. To complement these actions, the council developed Local Transport Development Plans that set out a range of potential schemes that could be delivered to improve the transport network to support towns and surrounding areas. Public consultation on a range of potential schemes took place between December 2020 and March 2021.
Plans have been developed for the two principal towns (Crewe and Macclesfield) and 9 key service centres (Alsager, Congleton, Handforth, Middlewich, Nantwich Knutsford, Poynton, Sandbach, Wilmslow). They also include surrounding areas to ensure all parts of the borough are included in at least one plan.
The plans identify how a coordinated and integrated transport network can be delivered, covering all forms of transport including walking, cycling, buses, rail, and road traffic. Improvements included in the plans are complementary to regeneration plans across the borough.
At this stage the majority of potential schemes are at the concept stage and unfunded. The Local Transport Development Plans will however guide future council investment in the transport network at a local level and act as enabling documents to secure external funds.
Local Transport Development Plans
- Alsager Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 3MB)
- Congleton Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4MB)
- Crewe Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4MB)
- Handforth Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 3MB)
- Knutsford Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 3MB)
- Macclesfield Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4MB)
- Middlewich Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4.7MB)
- Nantwich Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4MB)
- Poynton Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4MB)
- Sandbach Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 3MB)
- Wilmslow Local Transport Development Plan (PDF, 4MB)
Further information
If you have any further questions about the LTP Strategy, email our team at LTP@cheshireeast.gov.uk.
Disclaimer
If you require any of the PDFs on this page in an accessible format email the Cheshire East web team
Page last reviewed: 24 February 2025
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