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Spooky Saturday is in town on 31 October from 11am. Tatton's skeleton trail runs 24 Oct to 1 Nov, Tegg's Nose has a 50p trail map, and pumpkin picking is open.
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Poynton
Poynton Pool Dam Works: Budget More Than Doubles to £3.2m
Cheshire East has raised the Poynton Pool dam safety budget from £1.38m to £3.246m and says it has agreed a way forward with residents. What happens next.
Knutsford
Spodegreen data centre: 60ha plan by M56, drop-in 30 Sept
A 60-hectare data centre campus is planned near Little Bollington, by the M56 and A556. The first public drop-in is at High Legh on 30 September, 4pm to 8pm.
Planning
Wilmslow: 293 Homes Approved at Cumber Lane and Dean Row
The board approved both schemes on 16 September: 125 Bellway homes off Cumber Lane and 168 off Dean Row Road, 30% affordable. What comes next.
House prices
Cheshire East House Prices Hit a Record £309,121 in July
The average Cheshire East home reached a record £309,121 in July, up 5.0% in a year. Semis rose fastest, flats barely moved, and June was revised down.
Macclesfield
Macclesfield Christmas Bin Collections: Friday Rounds Move
No bins on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year's Day. In 2026 two of those fall on a Friday. Last year's moved dates, tip hours and the garden waste break.
Macclesfield
Macclesfield Term Dates 2026/27: Half Term Is 26 October
Cheshire East schools break for half term on 26 October and for Christmas on 18 December. King's has two weeks off in October. Every date and INSET day here.
Macclesfield
Macclesfield Christmas Trains: None 25 Dec, Few on 26th
No trains on Christmas Day, almost none on Saturday 26 December, and Birmingham New Street is disrupted 24 to 28 December. What we know for Macclesfield so far.
What's On
Macclesfield October Half Term 2026: 26 to 30 Oct, What's On
Half term is 26 to 30 October; King's is off from 19 October. Skeleton trail at Tatton, medieval crafts at the Silk Museum, Wallace and Gromit at Jodrell Bank.
Macclesfield
Macclesfield Remembrance Sunday: Parade 10.30am, 8 November
The parade leaves Market Place at 10.30am on Sunday 8 November for the Park Green cenotaph. Wilmslow parades from Grove Avenue at about 9.30am, 11am service.
Macclesfield
Santa in Macclesfield 2026: Tatton, Lapland, Brookside
Father Christmas is at Tatton's farm from 21 November, Lapland is back at Capesthorne Hall, and Brookside's Santa trains start 26 November at £2.50. Dates here.
Knutsford
Tatton Park Christmas 2026: Mansion, Yuletide, Hours
Christmas mansion from 21 November, £16 adults; Yuletide light trail from £19.50; Santa at the farm. Tatton is shut on Mondays and on Christmas Day all winter.
Roadworks
Manchester Road Wilmslow: 5 Oct start, full closure in Feb
Phase 2 of the Wilmslow to Handforth cycleway starts 5 October. Signals from 7 October, then a full road closure from 11 February. Every date listed.
Macclesfield sits with the moors at its back and the Cheshire plain in front of it, and the towns and villages around it are all quite different animals: Bollington and Prestbury up in the hills, Wilmslow, Handforth and Alderley Edge out on the commuter line, Poynton, Disley, Knutsford, Mobberley and Chelford further round.
They share one council. Cheshire East was drawn in 2009 and runs from here across to Crewe, so a decision that changes a street in Macclesfield is taken in a building that answers for a borough of 425,000 people. We go through the planning register, the licensing notices and the committee papers, and we write down the parts that apply at this end of it, with a link back to the original document every time.
No guesswork. If we cannot point you to the source, we do not print the figure.