Crewe misses out on becoming Cheshire's second city
Crewe has missed out in its bid to become a city - following an ambitious application submitted by Crewe Town Council last year.
The council submitted the bid for Crewe on October 28 2021, making their cases to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Civic Awards - a competition launched in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee.
39 applications were submitted across the UK and British overseas territories to land city status.
This included Crewe, Warrington, Wrexham, Bournemouth, Blackburn and Middlesbrough.
It has now been revealed today (May 19), that eight towns will awarded city status - with six of them on UK mainland.
Just 26 miles from Crewe, Wrexham, Wales has landed city status with a population of just 42,500.
The other UK mainland winners are Colchester, Essex, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Bangor, Northern Ireland, and Dunfermline, Scotland.
The two British overseas territories that will become a city are Douglas, Isle of Man and Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Crewe resident since birth, Rich Booth told Nub News: "They're living in cloud cuckoo land.
"Wrexham gained city status because although it's not the nicest place in the U.K. at least it's not a run down pile of rubble like Crewe.
"Hopefully if anything this serves as a wake up call for the clearly delusional powers at be.
"It's like presenting your half completed home work to your class teacher and then wondering why you're being told it's not good enough."
Usually, submitting an application to become a city would come at a cost. Preston's successful bid to become a city in 2002 was reported at costing £30,000.
For the Queen's Platinum Jubilee awards, all application submissions were free.
Back in October, the Crewe Town Mayor backed Crewe's city bid - believing it would help to raise the town's profile.
Cllr Tom Dunlop said: "The jubilee celebrations have presented us with a rare opportunity to submit an application on behalf of Crewe that identifies the ambition for Crewe to be recognised for its high-growth status as well as it strategic importance locally.
"Putting Crewe forward in this competition for city status raises Crewe's profile on a national stage and is an opportunity that we would not normally be able to take advantage of."
Currently, Crewe has an estimated population of 75,000 - according to Cheshire East Council's 2020 figures.
With the huge number of housing developments planned and taking place in the town - this is expected to significantly rise in the next decade.
Will Crewe bid again to be a city in the future?
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