Schedule 2 ORDER OF RETIREMENT OF COUNCILLORS
Original text. Later amendments are not shown.
| Name of ward | Number of councillors to retire in 2000 | Number of councillors to retire in 2002 | Number of councillors to retire in 2003 |
| Alsager Central | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Alsager East | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Alsager West | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Astbury | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Brereton | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Buglawton | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Congleton Central | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Congleton North | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Congleton North West | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Congleton South | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Congleton West | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dane Valley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Holmes Chapel | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lawton | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Middlewich Cledford | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Middlewich Kinderton | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Odd Rode | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sandbach East | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sandbach North | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sandbach West | 1 | 1 | 1 |