Your ideas for building a stronger future

Extend the Countess Country Park to include ex Mollington Golf Club land, much needed green space for Chester.

Wildflower meadows on the meadows & next to Cheshire villages etc. Great for tourists & wildlife.

Volunteers in local areas could maintain?

Bournemouth Beach coming to a Town Near You

Lots more people on street, lots more people exercising, I walked through Chester and seen people drinking on the street in the park and ampertherate, it looks like the goverment have taken our pubs away, so people are finding other way to socialise, but they are leaving rubbish behind. It's great people are meeting up and able to have picnics or drink, but leaving rubbish is wrong, better fines and more street cleaning, encourage more people to use these spaces to enjoy themselves, social space.

Re-sign communities to help boost walking and cycling

Simple re-signing at key locations in communities can signpost walking routes(with distance+time). Many don’t know about the simple shortcuts for walking & cycling. Govt £ should be spent on the small things 1st and the bigger schemes once you’ve built demand

Relearn the importance of public hygiene and good quality public washrooms

Health crisis emphasises the need for people to wash their hands especially before they eat and after using the loo. Takeaways in our tourist city are with us to stay so the public needs more places to wash their hands. The extensive high quality facility in the Grosvenor shopping centre has been closed, the new ones in Grosvenor Park are cheap inadequate facilities that are seldom maintained, the good quality old facility on The Groves are never open in the evenings, Frodsham Street facilities are a disgrace and the high street is full of empty units that could offer a large high quality location.

Provide dedicated spaces in low income communities to bolster against the economic and health crises

These could be low-cost eco-builds that provide a base for communities to increase their knowledge and confidence in tackling the issues that directly affect them, inviting in expertise to help explore and implement solutions to the crisis that best meet the new and evolving needs of the community in relation to low income, climate, health, hunger, education, democratic voice, tackling anti-social behaviour and community safety etc. They could be managed by communities and be a home for resident-led, council and partner-supported community wealth-building, rather than part of an ‘outreach’ service.

Support local enterprises

The Council needs to have real experts who can offer effective practical advice to assist local enterprises to grow and develop

Work more closely with the Canal and River Trust to improve the towpaths for walking and cycling, for visiting the linked parishes and towns

Marbury Maid.

Graveyards

Our graveyard at St Laurence Church is closed and adopted by Cheshire West. Frequent concerns are expressed about its tidiness and grass length. Is it possible that local people could be encouraged to work with Cheshire West rather than being reliant on them? Could the insurance be sorted to allow that to happen?

Covid has shown we can take care of people. No more homeless on our streets invest in solutions that work for them and our community.

More supported volunteering

The Council needs to invest more in volunteer organisers, for example Green Space Rangers so that more volunteer hours can be effectively managed. This will have the added benefit of reducing demand on health and social care are members of the community will also have improved health and wellbeing

Just do something

One of the better aspects of the pandemic has been people looking out for neighbours and offering help. Sometimes we can all be too backwards at asking for, or offering help from friends and neighbours. So many things that sounds small add up to bigger things. We can't all do eveything, but we should all try to: support local shops, restaurants, cafes and pubs, vote, give blood, recycle, home compost, walk or cycle short journeys, pick up some roadside litter ocasionally, talk to people, join a local group or society and so on.