Lancashire County Council yesterday agreed to freeze their Council Tax again for their third year. This means that residents living in a Band A home will pay £61.57 a month* towards Lancashire County Council services, and residents in a Band D home £92.35.
Updated data on childrens progress has been published on the Department for Education website, data that Labour kept hidden. For the first time parents can see what is really happening in their schools. Labour would claim ever rising standards while pointing to just one GCSE measure that rose every year.
You can look at the local data for Chorley schools from this link
Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Sayeedi Warsi visited Chorley yesterday to see an innovative new affordable housing scheme at Cotton Fields in Adlington.
She met representatives from Places for People, the contractors and visited the home of a new family who had just moved in at the end of October. Also at the visit was Councillor Alan Cullens who oversees housing policy for Chorley and County Councillor Peter Malpas in his role of Deputy Chairman of the Chorley Conservative Association.
Lancashire County Councillor Peter Malpas has been busy reporting faulty street lights on Wood Lane Heskin and in nearby Coppull.
In total 5 consecutive lamps in Preston Road Coppull have been reported as out on the busy A49, and a further six in Wood Lane Heskin, mainly around the Park Hall Lane junction.
Chorley Conservatives are pleased that the Parliamentary Boundary Review has recommended that the new Chorley Constituency should once again cover the same population as Chorley Borough Council - one Chorley.
Blackpool North and Cleveleys MP Paul Maynard was special guest and speaker at Chorley Conservatives Autumn Dinner held last night.
The fund-raising dinner set the scene for the elections next May.
Brinscall's Conservative Councillor Alison Hansford and Executive Councillor for Planning Alan Cullens have been vindicated as local Labour Councillor France and his Party hurriedly distributed a leaflet retracting their claim that up to 165 homes were planned for the nature trail behind Railway Road Brinscall.
The Labour Party had previously handed out a newsletter to Brinscall residents causing alarm by claiming that the Conservative Council were planning to build 165 homes on land behind Railway Road, whereas Chorley Council are proposing 32 across the whole of Wheelton and Withnell.
Following a ‘Campaign Special’ and visits by local Labour party members to several homes in Brinscall we set the record straight.
The Labour Party are guilty of malicious scare mongering over proposed housing developments and we are aware that this has given rise to a great deal of upset and concern.
In setting the record straight the 15 year plan allows for just 32 new homes in the whole of Wheelton and Withnell Ward and not the 165 Labour claim for one site.
Conservative councillors and members met up today in Euxton North to deliver newsletters and meet up with residents to discuss local issues.
Topics brought up include the regular closure of Euxton Lane due to flooding. But on the whole Euxton residents were happy about where they live and pleased with the way Chorley Council was being managed and with the services they provide.
Local Councillors Debra Platt and Cllr Rosemary Russell both joined the campaign team, and will be studying feedback from across Euxton North.
Heskin residents are asking for the introduction of a 30mph speed limit throughout Wood Lane between its' boundary with Eccleston and Wrightington. The speed limit is currently 40 mph.
