Cheshire East Council is to shortly begin procuring for a design-and-build contractor to deliver the £90m Congleton link road, and is assessing methods to allow preparatory works to start in January 2018.
More than three quarters of the North West’s local authority areas declared in favour of leaving the European Union.
Tax and business rates experts broadly welcomed changes but warned that further detail has yet to emerge about implementation of new regimes.
Three million apprenticeships will be funded by 2020 through the levy on all businesses with more than £3m payroll costs, prompting mixed responses from industry.
