Projects get the go-ahead

FAILSWORTH DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP:

A RANGE of community projects have been given the go-ahead by the district partnership.

Councillors approved £7,000 to help Limeside Primary School install kitchen and toilet facilities in an underused building on school grounds, to make it suitable as a base for a community outreach and regeneration project.

Failsworth Dynamos football club was given £2,438 to fund its annual celebration event next month at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, while £6,000 will allow St Margaret’s Church to clean up stone panels at Hollinwood War Memorial and install a flag pole.

A total of £1,263 was awarded to the Summer Football Festival in Limeside, which will run over the six-week school holidays, and £906 was given to the Failsworth School Community Cookbook project to help print copies.

Councillors also agreed in principle to use £20,000 to look into providing debt advice for residents in Failsworth and Hollinwood.

The money will only be granted after the Economic Prosperity Group reports back about the feasibility of the scheme at the next District Partnership meeting on September 29.




INCIDENTS of anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime increased in the Hollinwood and Failsworth East wards in April and May, compared with the same period last year.



But according to the Failsworth and Hollinwood Neighbourhood Police Report, the number of burglaries dropped across all wards, and violent crime offences have been decreasing since last August.

In a bid to tackle anti-social behaviour, police have launched Operation Rumble, which includes a high-visibility police presence in the Hardman Lane/Ashton Road West area.

Over the coming weeks in Hollinwood, plain clothes officers will target people who buy alcohol for underage drinkers.




MORE than £24,000 will be used to fund a range of community improvements.



A total of £5,842.84 was agreed for Hollinwood projects, including 38 hanging baskets costing £4,092.84.

Failsworth projects totalled £8,798.96, with the dressing of the Failsworth Pole with Christmas lights and provision of power to it costing £1,200.

Funding was also awarded for 45 barrier planters and 10 containers at the junction of the A62 and the M60 costing a total of £9,517.89.

Councillors agreed the play area at Failsworth Memorial Park should be refurbished under the government’s Playbuilder programme.

They also agreed to look into using a vehicle with a magnetic sign to advertise community PACT meetings.