Retired08 takes things too seriously, just because those words appear here it doesn't mean Cllr. Warrne said them, wrote them or even knew about them until it was published. Council (and police) press releases are written by people authorised to put words into other peoples mouths. In this case the voids were announced last year as a the reason work came to a grinding halt - and were reported on this website. At that point the scheme was UK Governemnt Funded and being run by the Crewe Town Board (using some privatised CEC Highways staff and according to the sign in Mill St, Taylor Woodrow as main contractor). As PCornes almost said, many "people from Crewe" knew what had been there until the 60/70's and could have guessed there would have cellars. But "people from Crewe" are never listened to be by those from elsewhere that do work like this, many of whom weren't even born when the original builings were demolished, becase we tend not to have degrees and they do, (often in something irrelevant and from a micky mouse university that used to be the polythechnic of the-back-of-beyond) so they feel they know better.

The minutes of the Crewe Town Board hint at an attempt to hold the contractor liable (presumably for not doing the homework PCornes mentioned) but it looks like they have given up getting them to finish the job at the contract price , or of getting the UK Government to cough up even more, so they went begging to CEC at which point it dropped on Cllr Warren, who also isn't from Crewe. Could I suggest that somebody actually tells the people from Crewe exactly what the outstanding Phase 2B will give us (because Phases 1 and 2a were hardly worth the hassle) and let us decide whether we need anyone to pay extra for it??!

As mentioned by Retired08 in his comment.
There were public houses along Mill street that were demolished in the 1960s ,
Neptune , The Engine house,
These must of had cellars in the day also the Houses must of had cellars IE for the likes of coal etc.
Surely homework has not been taken into account here to establish the previous land and ground structure.

Cllr Warren mentions substantial voids beneath the roads. There has only been patching of pot holes on the road, not any other work. I think he is referring to the old demolished properties basements in the area of the path/cycleway. CEC don't seem to be able to be accurate with their statements.

Just what was wrong with the previous walking route via Waverley court that a bit of Tlc would suffice,and as for the Pedley/Weston plans if ever money is found heaven help the area.

The scheme that nobody asked for (well nobody who would logically use it) and which mostly replaced a walking route that has existed for decades, half of which was upgraded when Lidl was built. Not actually run by CEC due to some dubious undermining of democracy in the days of Boris Johnson when the unelected Crewe Town Board was set up to bypass councillors with their very misleading website address https://weareallcrewe.co.uk/ - they are not all from Crewe and most of Crewe has never heard of them. Which is probably why councillors could not get sense out of what was happening, and mostly not happening, with the temporary traffic lights in Mill St.

What worries me is mention of Phase 2B if Phase 2A gets it to Pedley Street. What was 2B supposed to be? There was a proposed further stage from Pedley St to Weston Road which would have cost a massive amount of money and would have closed vehicle access to the station front but the government drew the line at funding something that stupid and nobody else had that much cash to throw around.