Car wash and takeaway on shortlist of town's best buildings

A car wash, a fried chicken takeaway and even a wall have made it onto a shortlist of a Cheshire town's best buildings.

The unlikely "gems" are included among a dozen nominations for the annual Macclesfield Civic Society awards.



The winners will get commemorative plaques immortalising them in the town's history and will be honoured by mayor Thelma Jackson at a special ceremony.



The list includes Allen's Fried Chicken, the rebuilt boundary wall on Armoury Court Mews, a Travelodge on Waters Green and the car wash by the exit of Tesco supermarket on Hurdsfield Road.

The civic society defended the choices, saying the criteria was whether a building was an improvement on what had been there before. They said the shortlist was designed 'to give a taste of what the real Macclesfield is like'.