🏆 The CWACk of the Day Award 🏆
Celebrating Incompetence at a Galactic Scale
Here at CWACked Roads HQ, we established the CWACk of the Day Award to recognise exceptional contributions to civic decline, with a special focus on Cheshire West and Chester’s Department of Highways, Inertia, and Excuses.
Each award celebrates a moment of truly breathtaking laziness, short-sightedness, or sheer bureaucratic vandalism. Loose flagstone? That’s a nomination. Missing cycle path? Step right up. A pavement collapse ignored for 18 months? Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
Let’s be honest though:
If we handed out a CWACk of the Day every time CWAC Highways dropped the ball, we’d need a calendar longer than the entire history of the universe. Even 13.8 billion years isn’t enough to cover this level of dereliction.
Whether it’s heritage streets allowed to crumble, cycle routes blocked by parked cars, or just the day-to-day filth left to compost underfoot, CWAC Highways continues to deliver — not services, but disappointment.
This award isn’t just sarcasm. It’s a public record of failure.
So to CWAC Highways: congratulations. You’ve made doing nothing look like a full-time job.
📢 Nominate your CWACk today.
📢 Because if we don’t laugh, we’ll cry.
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🏆 The CWACk of the Day Award 🏆
Category: Best Heritage Destruction by Inaction
Bunce Street: 150 Years of History, 0 Years of Maintenance — A Classic CWACk-Up
Celebrating Incompetence at a Galactic Scale
Here at CWACked Roads HQ, we established the CWACk of the Day Award to recognise exceptional contributions to civic decline, with a special focus on Cheshire West and Chester’s Department of Highways, Inertia, and Excuses.
Bunce Street is a quiet, narrow passage tucked inside Chester’s ancient walls. It links Grosvenor Street to Castle Street and boasts Grade II-listed Grosvenor Cottages, built in 1874 — fine examples of Victorian architecture in orange-brown brick, with charming blue brick patterning and slate roofs.
But don’t worry — CWAC Highways are on hand to wreck it slowly.
Rather than protect one of Chester’s most historic streets, CWAC has let flagstone after flagstone work loose, rock sideways, and shatter outright. There’s no overgrowth here, just the cumulative result of zero edge restraint, failed bedding, and total absence of basic maintenance.
The result?
- Historic surfacing now a hazard
- Slabs visibly rocking and breaking
- Repeated damage from vehicles
- No preservation of listed context
- A street that has quite literally been allowed to fall apart, one slab at a time
Each award celebrates a moment of truly breathtaking laziness, short-sightedness, or sheer bureaucratic vandalism. Loose flagstone? That’s a nomination. Missing cycle path? Step right up. A pavement collapse ignored for 18 months? Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
Let’s be honest though:
If we handed out a CWACk of the Day every time CWAC Highways dropped the ball, we’d need a calendar longer than the entire history of the universe. Even 13.8 billion years isn’t enough to cover this level of dereliction.
Whether it’s heritage streets allowed to crumble, cycle routes blocked by parked cars, or just the day-to-day filth left to compost underfoot, CWAC Highways continues to deliver — not services, but disappointment.
This award isn’t just sarcasm. It’s a public record of failure.
So to CWAC Highways: congratulations. You’ve made doing nothing look like a full-time job.
📢 Nominate your CWACk today.
📢 Because if we don’t laugh, we’ll cry.
#CWACkedRoads
🚧 Presented to CWAC on 20 May, 2025 for yet another masterpiece in infrastructure mismanagement. 🚧
#CWACkedRoads #Chester
🏆 The CWACk of the Day Award 🏆
For exceptional contributions to road chaos, pedestrian peril, and the fine art of municipal neglect.
CWAC’s Contempt for Chester: A Historic City Defaced
Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) has once again demonstrated its total disregard for Chester’s historic character, this time by hacking out heritage stone slabs and replacing them with a cheap, black asphalt patch that looks more like a DIY botch job than proper urban maintenance.
The image says it all: a crude, tarmac-filled scar in the heart of one of Britain’s most historic cities, a city that deserves careful preservation, not a lazy, short-term fix that belongs on a back alley, not a conservation area. Other cities—York, Bath, Oxford—protect and enhance their historic streetscapes. Meanwhile, CWAC’s highways department treats Chester’s centre with the finesse of a wrecking crew.
The excuses will be predictable: budget constraints, a temporary fix, or accessibility concerns—all of which fail to justify this outright vandalism. Where is the pride in Chester? Where is the respect for its built environment? If CWAC had any interest in maintaining our city properly, we wouldn’t be seeing a slapdash, third-rate fix defiling the streets.
What’s next? A bit of MDF on the Rows? Concrete render on the Roman walls? Tarmac over the Eastgate Clock? CWAC’s failure isn’t just incompetence—it’s a complete lack of care.
🚨 Chester deserves better. Hold CWAC to account before more of our city is destroyed. 🚨
🚧 Presented to CWAC on 8 March, 2025 for yet another masterpiece in infrastructure mismanagement. 🚧
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Chester’s Pavements: A Crumbling Embarrassment
Chester—a historic city with Roman heritage, medieval streets, and a unique architectural charm—should be a shining jewel among Britain’s great cities. Yet step outside and look down, and the reality is an absolute disgrace. Pavements riddled with cracks, loose slabs, and ankle-breaking potholes line our streets, while CWAC—the council supposedly responsible for maintaining our city—turns a blind eye to the mess.
Compare Chester to York, Bath, or Oxford, cities that take pride in their appearance and respect their heritage. Their streets are clean, well-maintained, and welcoming—ours are a patchwork of neglected surfaces, botched repairs, and hazards for pedestrians. Try walking through the city without tripping on a sunken flagstone, navigating around an obstacle course of puddles, or dodging loose debris. It’s an insult to residents, businesses, and visitors alike.
CWAC’s attitude? Couldn’t care less. The council seems perfectly content to let Chester’s streets crumble, showing zero respect for its history or the people who live here. Where’s the investment? Where’s the attention to detail? Why are tourists leaving with twisted ankles instead of fond memories?
The simple truth is this: Chester deserves better. Our streets should reflect the city's importance, not a second-rate, crumbling afterthought. While other councils restore their public spaces, CWAC continues its legacy of neglect, excuses, and apathy.
Walk through Chester and see the shambles for yourself. Just mind the trip hazards.
How CWAC’s Neglect is Driving Chester’s Decline
There’s an old saying: look after the small things, and the big things take care of themselves. Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) seems to believe the exact opposite. Across the UK, city centres that ignore basic upkeep—crumbling pavements, failing roads, and general neglect—quickly spiral into deeper decline. Chester is heading the same way, and CWAC’s incompetence is accelerating it.
We’ve seen it happen before. Croydon ended up in financial ruin after years of mismanagement, cutting services and letting infrastructure fall apart. Shropshire is in crisis, slashing budgets for road maintenance, leaving towns with failing high streets and worsening conditions. And now, Chester is following the same downward trajectory—a historic city being chipped away, not by time, but by a council that simply doesn’t care.
Let’s talk about our roads and pavements. They’re a mess. Watergate’s stone setts are loose and dangerous, footpaths are cracked and hazardous, and "repairs" are often just a quick-fix bodge job. Instead of keeping on top of small, routine maintenance, CWAC lets things deteriorate until the cost of fixing them becomes astronomical. It’s not just incompetence—it’s a deliberate refusal to do the basics properly.
And the consequences? Businesses leave, footfall drops, and Chester becomes less attractive to visitors and investment. Matalan has already closed, another sign of a struggling high street. And yet, CWAC still acts like none of this is connected. Their attitude? It’s not their problem.
If CWAC actually cared about Chester’s future, they’d stop making excuses and start maintaining the city properly. Potholes shouldn’t last for months. Pavements shouldn’t be trip hazards. Our heritage streets shouldn’t be defaced with black asphalt patches.
But here we are—watching a historic city crumble while the council hides behind budget excuses and bureaucracy. If CWAC doesn’t change course, Chester’s decline will only get worse—and they will be the ones to blame.
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