Local Transport Plan

Your Transport – Your Voice - consultation is live

We are developing a new Local Transport Plan (LTP).

From Monday 13 October to Sunday 7 December 2025, we are inviting you to reflect on our proposals and share your views. Your feedback will help us refine our policies and ensure that the final LTP reflects the needs and aspirations of Cheshire East’s communities.

To get a quick overview on the importance of this consultation and why we are keen to hear from Cheshire East residents, we have produced a one-minute film which summarises all the key points.

Video transcript (PDF, 56KB).

Transport and travel play a crucial role in our everyday lives. To ensure our continued success and prosperity, we must plan for a transport network that is fit for the future – one that connects people to jobs, education, healthcare, and leisure.

Following the decision to establish a combined authority across Cheshire and Warrington (devolution), strategic transport will be considered sub-regionally in the future. This LTP puts us on the front foot to feed in our strategic transport priorities for Cheshire East.

The Strategy and Investment Framework will guide how we plan, prioritise, and deliver transport improvements across Cheshire East. Together, they set out our way forward for a network that works for everyone: supporting growth, improving wellbeing, reducing environmental impacts and enhancing connections.

This plan has been developed through a collaborative approach across the council, to ensure that transport is not considered in isolation, but as a key aspect of our broader ambitions for the borough.

We know that improving travel choices can help tackle health inequalities, reduce carbon emissions, and support economic growth. Our vision sets out how we will meet these challenges head-on, by investing in better connections, supporting active travel, enhancing public transport, and making our transport system more accessible.

Find out more and have your say

This is your chance to help shape our future transport strategy. Your ideas and experiences will guide the plans and priorities that affect us all. Whether you’re a resident, business, commuter, or visitor – your voice matters.

We really want to know what you think about our Local Transport Plan Strategy and Investment Framework during the consultation period.

This is your opportunity to help us build a transport network that works for everyone. Please take a few minutes to share your views.

Submit your views

Complete the consultation questionnaire online

Or email your views to: ceconsultation@cheshireeast.gov.uk

If you can't complete the consultation online, you can view paper copies at our libraries and leisure centres. You can also request a copy by calling 0300 123 5500 or writing to: Research and Consultation, Cheshire East Council, 4th Floor, Delamere House, Crewe, CW1 2LL.

To receive any consultation material in an alternative format, email: ceconsultation@cheshireeast.gov.uk.

Why we need a new plan

Since our last Local Transport Plan (LTP) was adopted in 2019, the way people move around has changed significantly. New challenges have emerged but so have new opportunities. That’s why we’ve developed a new LTP Strategy and Investment Framework, to ensure our transport policies remain robust, relevant, and responsive to the needs of our residents.

What's happened so far

In January 2025, our Highways and Transport Committee 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 January committee meeting.

Our Vision for Transport consultation took place between 24 February and 21 April 2025. This gave the opportunity for people to feedback on our draft vision, aims and priorities, and the key transport challenges and opportunities identified.

Thank you to everyone that responded - your consultation feedback has been important to help us refine our vision and create a transport strategy that truly reflects the needs and aspirations you want from Cheshire East. A report has been published on the consultation results webpage summarising the feedback that we received.

In September 2025, the Cheshire East Highways and Transport Committee discussed LTP progress and gave approval to launch a consultation on the LTP Strategy and Investment Framework. For more details, see the agenda and minutes of the September committee meeting.

Local Transport Plan 2019-2024

Cheshire East Council’s Local Transport Plan 2019 - 2024 (LTP) was adopted in October 2019. The strategy considered all forms of transport over the 5-year period of 2019-2024.

As part of the LTP , the council developed Local Transport Development Plans for our 2 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 plans will guide future investment in the transport network at a local level.

Local Transport Development Plans

Further information

If you have any further questions about the LTP Strategy, email our team at ltp@cheshireeast.gov.uk.

Disclaimer

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Page last reviewed: 10 October 2025