Castle Ward runs from the Millennium Bridge all the way to Aldcliffe and includes: St Georges Quay, the Marsh Estate, Willow Lane, Abraham Heights, Fairfield, Blades St & Dallas Rd, along with the area around the Castle itself.
The black poplar one of Britain’s rarest native trees, is being given a boost to its numbers down in a new 15-acre reserve next to Freemans Wood.
Thanks to an Environment Agency project, to be known as Freeman’s Pools, a number of black poplar trees have been planted. The saplings are genetic matches to a mature specimen at the nearby Freeman’s Wood County Biological Heritage Site. (more…)
The Government is currently deciding which company will operate the successor to the Post Office card account (POCA) from 2010. Although the Post Office has made a strong bid, it is far from certain that it will win the contract. The National Federation of SubPostmasters (NFSP) is taking action to secure the contract for the Post Office and a future for the post office network (more…)
7.30 PM, TUESDAY 24TH JUNE 2008
LANCASTER TOWN HALL
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT
THE CHANGES TO THE CENTROS PLANS
AND HOW TO OBJECT TO THEM
This meeting is to provide information about the latest changes to the Centros plans and how to object to them. There will be speakers followed by a question and answer session.
Appletree Nursery & Children’s Centre on Milking Stile Lane threw open its doors on Thursday 8th May for a Vision Day. People from the local community were invited to come and look around the newly extended and refurbished building and add their voice to the vision of the new children’s centre.
Green County Councillor Chris Coates Said after his tour “The facilities here are superb. The classroom in the nursery is equipped with the highest quality play equipment and the sensory room is a real treat.”
Appletree has extended it range of services and is hoping to expand further in the future with plans for a community garden on land next to the nursery.For more information see the Appletree website.
The go ahead was given for cyclists to ride against the traffic along Brook St, at the end of Dallas road in Lancaster this week. Speaking after the scheme was approved at the Lancaster Locals meeting Green County Councillor Chris Coates said “ This is another small link in the districts cycle network. I hope that cycle contraflows will become accepted as normal by all road users, especially on quiet residential roads.” The scheme will be carried out over the next year.
A debate has broken out in Aldcliffe over the name of a road - Is it Railway Crossing Lane or is it Aldcliffe Hall Lane? The question has arisen after new street signs were erected saying ‘Railway Crossing Lane’. Local Green Cllr Jon Barry Said ” I am trying to get to the bottom of this - we need to know what local people want it to be called and check that the emergency services have the right name on their maps too.”
Developers Centros have been back in town showing the latest version of their plans for the controversial redevelopment of the Canal Corridor area of town to local councillors and interested parties. Planning applications for this version of the scheme are due to be submitted in the 2nd week of June.
The new Centros proposals can be downloaded here:
A pothole at the end of Sunnyside Lane has been filled in double quick time by the council. The hole at the end of Sunnyside Lane, where the path to the Community Orchard leaves the road, was reported to local green councillor Catriona Stamp who made a request for repairs to the Council. Catriona said “ I was very pleased, and a little surprised, to find the potholed filled in within days – and while they were at it the council workmen filled in a couple of others nearby.”
Plans to build a car park at Lancaster Priory have ended up in a legal muddle. Planning permission was granted without the Council being aware that the land was protected by the Open Spaces Act. Local residents who objected to the scheme applied for Town Green status for the area and it was at the hearing that the Open Spaces designation was uncovered. The legal team at the council is now trying to unravel the situation. But, for the time being at least, no work should start on the car park.
Saturday 1st of March saw Lancaster’s Carnival of Culture come off without a hitch. During the day, between 250-350 people joined in a fantastically colourful, creative and vibrant street procession that snaked around the town through the afternoon, stopping in spots that are due to be blighted by car-parks, big box retail shopping and so forth, as well as the town square with it’s Trumpton-style Victoria statue, the City hall and the planners’ offices.
For full report by ‘anarchoteapot’ see Indymedia. For more pics,video etc see the Carnival website.
