Macclesfield Town Council has convened an Extraordinary Full Council meeting for Monday 2 February 2026 at Macclesfield Town Hall (7:00pm) to consider a specified motion. The council’s public meetings calendar lists the Full Council meeting for 2 February 2026, but the formal agenda and the exact wording of the motion had not been published at the time of reporting.
Extraordinary meetings are used when matters are considered too urgent to wait for the normal cycle of business. Under the council’s Standing Orders (see Sections 7 and 8.1), an extraordinary meeting may be called to deal with urgent business or to bring a ‘special motion’ that, for example, could be used to reverse a resolution where the standing orders restrict reversal within six months.
While the council had not published the text of the motion, recent council activity shows an ongoing focus on town-centre regeneration. The Macclesfield Town Centre Recovery Working Group has been producing updates and plans (including a terms-of-reference update on 31 January 2025) intended to revitalise the high street and address vacant premises — for example, the loss of the former Marks & Spencer site is cited in local planning materials as a key challenge prompting regeneration work.
Local residents are invited to attend council meetings and may take part in the public participation slot. Macclesfield Town Council’s Standing Orders set a default maximum public participation period of 15 minutes and a limit of 3 minutes per speaker (unless the chair directs otherwise). Anyone wishing to speak or to check arrangements should contact the Town Clerk, Laura Smith, in advance; full meeting details are published on the council’s Meetings Calendar.
The council’s regeneration work sits alongside the Macclesfield Town Centre Strategic Regeneration Framework maintained by Cheshire East Council. Separately, there is an active public petition on Change.org calling for a new Macclesfield-based unitary authority (a return to a Macclesfield borough-style council) that reflects local debate about governance and local autonomy.
For confirmation of the meeting time and to see the formal agenda when released, see Macclesfield Town Council’s official meetings calendar.
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