A group of ten residents joined Green Party Councillors on a community litter pick on Quay Meadows last saturday. Between them they picked over 20 bags of rubbish and an assortment of junk & rubish including an abandoned barbeque and a heap of wire.
Local Green Party member Melanie Forrest said ” At first the area look quite clean, but when you got into the undergrowth there was an amazing ammount of rubbish.”
The Litter Pick was the first of the Spring Actibvities of Castle Ward Green Party – the next Litter Pick will be on Coronation Fields on March 14th.
Green County Councillor Chris Coates has used part of his annual local project grant from the County Council to fund a new bench on the canal near Aldcliffe Road. The money was given to the Friendship Centre – a city centre drop-in for older people who commissioned the City Council to provide the bench.
Following the resignation of the Conservative leader of the Council after failing to come up with a budget, other political groups on the cabinet now have to come up with a budget before the cabinet meeting on February 17th.
Plans for a Fleetwood Town, or Parish, Council were thrown into disarray after a meeting of Wyre Council voted against the proposal – with a councillor from Garstang having the casting vote. Members of Fleetwood Action Group said after the meeting that Wyre Council had no grounds whatsoever to do anything else but approve the bid for the Fleetwood town/parish council.
