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Bollington is a town in the north east of Cheshire, about 3 miles north of Macclesfield and 18 miles south east of Manchester. It sits on the edge of the Peak District National Park and is surrounded by beautiful countryside.
Bollington has a population of around 8,000 and straddles the B5090 which is a long road of many names. It is bisected by the canal and the former railway (now the Middlewood Way).
Bollington Town Council was established in 1974 (formerly the Urban District Council) and is today represented by twelve Councillors, 4 on each of the 3 wards.
There is always a lot happening in Bollington and this website aims to provide all the information you need about the town, whether you live here, work in the town or are visiting.
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The photographs above are published with the kind permission of the Bollington Photographic Group.
A statement by Bollington Town Council
In the second half of 2024, the Town Council consulted with residents on two issues, each of which is a service which Cheshire East Council had been providing but which, because of their budgetary constraints, they were proposing to change. The result of that public consultation was a clear mandate from residents for the Town Council to pay significant sums to Cheshire East Council to avoid them (i) introducing charges for users of Pool Bank carpark on Palmerston St, and (ii) appreciably reducing the opening hours of Bollington Library. At a meeting on 7 January which set the Town Council’s budget for the financial year starting on 1 April 2025, these extra costs inevitably resulted in a need for an appreciable increase to the Town Council’s portion of residents’ overall Council Tax.
However, 96% of the full Council Tax which residents pay is not affected by these carpark and library issues, because the Town Council element is only 4% of overall Council Tax in Bollington in the current financial year (whereas 80% of Council Tax goes to fund Cheshire East Council). The increase attributable to the Town Council in each household’s Council Tax bill for the financial year starting on 1 April will be (taking a Band D property as an example) £3.91 per month – and 75% of that £3.91 is attributable to the carpark and library, with the other 25% (less than £1, in other words) being for a combination of some necessary improvement works to the Town Hall and the effects of ongoing inflation on all of the Council’s expenditure.
The Town Council has also given extensive consideration to the need for improvement works to Bollington Civic Hall. It had been the intention to carry these out during the 2025/26 financial year, but the need to find funding for the carpark and library has caused this project to be paused; we very much hope to resume it in a subsequent year.
January 2025
