Published on March 24, 2016 at 9:48 am
On Thursday 5 May voters in England will go to the polls to elect Rossendale Councillors and a Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire. Registering now for the elections in May will also mean voters are registered in good time before the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union on 23 June.
Filed under: democracy | election | lancashire | local
Published on March 9, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Lancashire County Council’s Highways Department has closed Fearns Moss Road, Stacksteads, Bacup. Heavy rain has added to water built up from a blocked culvert. Under an emergency procedure order the road is now closed with a diversion in place and the road will only re-open once the remedial works have been carried out to resolve the problem.
Published on February 26, 2016 at 4:00 pm
COUNCILLORS across Lancashire will decide whether to press ahead with plans for a Combined Authority after a public consultation gave overwhelming support to the proposal.
Each of the 14 councils taking part in the process will take a report to members in the coming weeks to seek approval to submit a bid to Central Government.
Filed under: authority | combined | consultation | lancashire | proposed | public | services
Published on February 22, 2016 at 12:07 pm
Lancashire County Council (LCC), the Highways Authority in Rossendale, carried out road surfacing work last year on a number of sites in Rossendale that have now showed signs of failure. LCC have investigated this and they have completed surveys of all the sites. They have confirmed that they will be doing remedial works in the Spring.
Published on February 18, 2016 at 11:15 am
Northern Joinery, based in Whitworth, Lancashire have been awarded an LBGF grant of £46,614. Northern Joinery is one of the country’s leading quality staircase manufacturers with considerable experience in the design and manufacture of timber staircases.
It boasts one of the best staircase-manufacturing plants in the UK with a capacity well in excess of 200 staircases per week.
Filed under: business | fund | growth | lancashire | regional
Published on February 12, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Boost for Business is running a Flood Recovery Grant Scheme to support businesses severely affected (either directly or indirectly) by the December 2015 flooding in Lancashire and the fund is open until February 28th 2016.
This grant scheme is to support small and medium sized businesses severely affected (either directly or indirectly) by the flooding of December 2015, to help businesses recover quickly and get back trading successfully and being sustainable.
Filed under: business | flooding | lancashire | rossendale | support
Published on February 11, 2016 at 5:01 pm
This is a North West partnership campaign across Cheshire, Merseyside, Blackburn, Blackpool and Lancashire.
1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men have suffered domestic abuse. It’s not just physical violence. Domestic abuse can be emotional too – like threats and controlling behaviour. It’s behind closed doors. It’s known, but not talked about.
Filed under: abuse | advice | campaign | council | domestic | help | lancashire | local | partnership | rossendale | support
Published on February 1, 2016 at 4:38 pm
Households in Rossendale who want to reduce their gas and electricity bills can get help to make their homes more ‘energy efficient’.
£6m will be up for grabs to enable Lancashire residents to get energy saving technology and measures in their homes to keep them warm and their bills down.
Cosy Homes in Lancashire (CHiL) provide free or subsidised boilers and insulation measures as part of a partnership between every Council in Lancashire and a number of energy industry companies.
Filed under: affordable | fuel | lancashire | warmth