ACCORDING to a recent leaflet drop referring to the ANSA recycling plant, it marks the end of Middlewich.

According to statistics, around 1,000 extra vehicles a day will be using the roads. As previous investors in Middlewich were asked to contribute to the eastern bypass, so are ANSA and Cheshire East doing the same?

Middlewich’s demise was made years ago when we came under the control of Congleton Borough council who invested nothing and we became the poor neighbours of the borough and this has continued under Cheshire East.

You only need to look at neighbouring towns, for example Sandbach, Crewe, Alsager, Macclesfield, etc, where considerable investment and improvements have been made.

Look at the investment in Winsford and Northwich, albeit in Cheshire West where vast sums are improving both towns. What has Middlewich got to offer, with hundreds of extra homes being built with no supporting infrastructure; bodged up pothole repairs and altogether shoddy roads; and grass verges that when mowed, the cuttings aren’t collected but left to blow into the road and pavements, where they mix with the overgrown weeds and unkempt kerbs?

Go into town, you can purchase a property, have your hair and nails done in a selection of salons, purchase a takeaway or shop in one of the charity shops. Visit the town market on a Tuesday, it won’t take long as there is only invariably one stall in attendance.

Middlewich has the highest council tax rate in Cheshire east, but appears to be the least invested in. If it wasn’t for the volunteers on the Middlewich clean team, I dread to think what other state we’d be in.

Steve Richardson Middlewich