Potential transfer of bus stations to town councils

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Potential transfer of bus stations to town councils
Cheshire East Council have been passing assets to town councils for a while now. It seems a potential transfer of Knutsford bus station to the town council is now being explored.

KNUTSFORD BUS STATION
The Town Centre Committee had resolved to recommend that the asset transfer of this area be
explored. The working group agreed that transfer of the bus station should be considered.
The proposed transfer area would include the taxi office, covered waiting area and the paved service
road. There would be the potential to generate some income from the taxi office to contribute to the
operational costs of maintaining the bus station itself. In preparing a business case, it would be
recommended that the council commissions a structural survey of the bus station itself to understand
future maintenance costs.

The current bus station was constructed in 1990 as part of the Booths supermarket development, using S106 funding (or whatever the equivalent was then). I don't think much money has been spent on maintaining it since.