Cheshire East Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

Cheshire East Council is the one council for Cheshire East: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 12,337 postcodes in use in Cheshire East, in 31 postcode districts across 8 postcode areas.

84% of homes and businesses in Cheshire East can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 1,114 homes and businesses in Cheshire East in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
24
Postcodes in use
12,337
Postcode districts
31
Towns and villages
31

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

Cheshire East Council

cheshireeast.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Cheshire East Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Bins and recycling

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

Roads and parking

Report a problem

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Cheshire East Council. GOV.UK lists 26. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 2 pages had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). We left those out rather than send you to a page we could not see. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Cheshire East?

Across Cheshire East, 84% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 79% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre79% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)84% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)97% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)Under 1%

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How much is council tax in Cheshire East?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,455 a year

Every other band is a fixed share of Band D, set in law. Band A is two thirds of it; band H is twice it.

BandA year
Band A£1,637
Band B£1,909
Band C£2,182
Band D£2,455
Band E£3,000
Band F£3,546
Band G£4,091
Band H£4,910

Band D is the average across the area, including the county council, police, fire and combined authority charges, and parish or town council charges, so a home's own bill can be a little different. Bands other than D are worked out by us from Band D and rounded to the pound. A home's bill also takes off any discount, such as 25% for one adult living alone.

Check one home's band on GOV.UK

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10, published 25 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in Cheshire East are at risk of flooding?

Across Cheshire East, the Environment Agency puts 1,114 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 499 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 499 postcodes High: 516Medium: 598Low: 3,421Very low: 50

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In Cheshire East the Environment Agency counts 5,069 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (2.1% of all its properties), 5,442 at medium risk (2.3%) and 17,661 at low risk (7.4%). Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcode districts with postcodes in Cheshire East

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode areas

CH postcode area: Chester, postcodes in use here:1 of 19,090CW postcode area: Crewe, postcodes in use here:6,111 of 9,862M postcode area: Manchester, postcodes in use here:1 of 32,420SK postcode area: Stockport, postcodes in use here:4,295 of 16,696ST postcode area: Stoke-on-Trent, postcodes in use here:611 of 17,871SY postcode area: Shrewsbury, postcodes in use here:110 of 14,641TF postcode area: Telford, postcodes in use here:1 of 7,234WA postcode area: Warrington, postcodes in use here:1,207 of 18,345

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in Cheshire East.

Towns and villages

CreweMacclesfieldCongletonWilmslowNantwichKnutsfordAlsagerMiddlewichSandbachPoyntonHandforthElworthHolmes ChapelBollingtonAlderley EdgeShavingtonHaslingtonDisleyPrestbury, Cheshire EastWillaston, Cheshire EastAudlemScholar GreenWheelockGoostrey

The 24 with the most postcodes in Cheshire East, of 31. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Cheshire East?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

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What Cheshire East covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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