Many of you will have driven past the roundabout sculpture known as the 'Solar Glazer' on Jack Mills Way next to the new commercial park that has been left half completed for six months.

It's now been taken down. I've been finding out the full story as to how it got there and am now determined we get a change that residents can be proud of.

For a long time now I have thought we could make better use of our roundabouts to help celebrate the positive heritage that is still very much alive and kicking industries in Crewe.

Whitby Morrison, Mornflake, Bentley, Alstom at Crewe Works. These are all prestigious businesses that have long made Crewe their home and made Crewe what it is today.

I think we can all agree Crewe could be helped by doing more to talk about the good things it can be proud of, not just the challenges. We have talked about this at the Crewe Town Board. But we hadn't been able to get support for this.

So I was surprised and disappointed to see this sculpture appear out of nowhere, without any discussion with me or the Town Board or more importantly residents of Crewe.

The Solar Gazer on Jack Mills Way has now been taken down.

To then see it surrounded by traffic cones for weeks on end was adding insult to injury.

So I started asking questions-who agreed it, who was asked about it and why was it surrounded by traffic cones?

It turned out the sculpture was planned as part of the commercial development with the developer of the new business park who agreed to foot the bill and came up with the design.

There had been no opportunity for residents to have their say beside the unlikely event they came across the planning application on Cheshire East Council's planning portal…..that is not a website people tend to casually browse through!

I was told the cones were there because there were concerns about safety that had been raised when the building of it started. I would have hoped we could have understood what those risks might have been before it started being built, but no such luck!

I told Cheshire East that I thought it should come down and not be returned and that people in Crewe should have a say on a design we can all be proud of and that can help get visitors talking positively about the town.

I have already been talking to key local companies who are interested in supporting something positive for us all.

We are doing all we can to regenerate and level up Crewe. We have our £22.9 million Crewe Town Deal, £14m from the Future High Streets Fund and £5m to create an Institute of Technology at Cheshire College.

The Crewe Town Board is full of people that want to help Crewe fulfil its potential. This is the perfect example of how the people of Crewe working together to get what's best for the town could deliver and show that if we shout loud enough we can change things for the better.