St Johns Lib Dems

Christmas wishes

carolgilligan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:04:49 +0000

I would like to wish all the electors of St John’s Ward peace and joy at Christmas. Wishing you also a prosperous and successful New Year of 2012.

Cockle Bed Ban

carolgilligan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:52:00 +0000

From 00.01 hours today it will be a criminal offence to fish or attempt to fish for cockles from the beds in the Ribble estuary or on the Wirral coast. At long last the ‘cockle snatchers’ who invaded local fishermen territory have been stopped by using a new emergency byelaw.
The beds are closed under section 157 of The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. The emergency byelaw says the purpose of the closure is for the management of cockle stocks, but other contemporaneous information supplied with the emergency byelaw,(but not part of it) says the reason for the new byelaw is to close the Ribble area to all methods of cockle gathering in order to protect public safety and reduce the impact of the fishery on other statutory regulatory authorities. (The Wirral cockle fishery is also closed to stop folk going there instead).
The purpose of the closure is to allow NWIFCA (‘North Western inshore Fisheries And Conservation Authority’) time to review (and presumably change) their byelaw No 5 under which cockling permits are issued, so they can address their incompetence drafting it in the first place.
They say they will review the position again on the 6th December.
I have spoken to some local Lytham fishermen who are sad and angry at the invasion from outsiders who have not got the best interests of the people living locally. The disruption and the cost of rescues has been outrageous.
Let’s hope we can have some peace in Lytham and support our local fishermen.

Tell me what you think!

carolgilligan — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:16:52 +0000

I am at present half way through a canvass in St John’s Ward to get feedback on issues that are important to you. Over the past four weeks I have managed to meet as many people on the door-steps that I possibly can. My family have helped on delivery rounds to those houses that I have not managed to get to personally,( mainly due to work committments and inclement weather).
I want to listen and take up the challenge to have your voice’s heard regarding community affairs. I intend to press on regarding matters that have been brought to light from the responses on the returned questionnaires.
The St Johns e- mail newsletter is, as I have said before proving popular. If you would like to receive a copy then please send me your e mail address to carol.pol@hotmail.co.uk.
I have met up with many friends and new acquaintances and thanks to all those for giving me a warm welcome!

Ballam Road Mk2-Appeal Refused

carolgilligan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:30:03 +0000

Good news for many Lytham residents broke today. The appeal to build 11 new houses on countryside land outside the Lytham settlement boundary on Ballam Road has been refused.That’s two appeals on this site lost!

Not political-But an important occasion.

carolgilligan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:44:56 +0000

On Thursday the 22nd September my husband and I held a Coffee Morning in Aid of Cancer Research at the Brooklands House Retirement Home in Lytham. The Mayor and Mayoress of Fylde, Councillors Howard and Karen Henshaw kindly opened the event.
A staggering one thousand pounds was raised.

Thank you to all who heped out on the day, including staff at Brookalnds, residents, and the local Lytham Cancer Research Committee.

JUST A REMINDER

carolgilligan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:24:13 +0000

Warton Street Lytham will be closed from Wednesday 14th September 2011 to Friday 23rd September 2011 from Station Road to Preston Road (where the hospital use to be).
This means that there is no parking on Station Road from Warton Street to East Beach during this time and buses will be re-routed.

St Johns PACT meeting 1st September 2011

carolgilligan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:19:58 +0000

An interesting meeting. Local police issues discussed. Parking in and around Lytham seems to be an issue and a concern in some areas of the town. One lady in the area was very concerned that Cecil Street and Agnew Street were congested to the point that the local householders could not park outside their own homes. Infact this lady has had damaged done to her car by persons unknown on at least two occasions. She went on to point out that there are two car parks close by that people are unaware of due to lack of ‘sign posts’.
Councillor Tim Ashton was not at this particular meeting to address these concerns to him. However it was pointed out that Councillor Aston will be at the October meeting.
Lets hope that the issue of parking will be addressed with the local Council concerned at their next meeting.

PACT meetings in St Johns are on the first Thursday of every month at St Johns Court Lytham.

Take-a-bag scheme

carolgilligan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:43:36 +0000

St Anne’s Town Council plan to introduce a Take-a-Bag scheme so that dog walkers can use ready provided bags to ‘pick up’ dog mess created by their pets. The bag dispensers will initially be located in ten sites around the Town and if the scheme is successful in reducing dog fouling then then number of sites could be increased.

Dog Fouling received the highest number of complaints when the Have Your Say consultation exercise was undertaken last year. The scheme will be launched shortly.

St Johns Newsletter

carolgilligan — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:06:13 +0000

I have had a good response to my first ‘e mail’ St Johns Newsletter. A personal touch of keeping ‘in touch’. First newsletter went out on 14th August 2011.
Thank you once again for all those that voted for me at the last local elections. In respect everyones vote is personal and private but obviously if you voted for me and felt like saying so that would be wonderful. Its better to thank people personally. The Lib dems are a democratic party, we are very concerned about why people choose not to vote at all and it would be fantastic if you would like to comment on that.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS ST JOHNS WARD

carolgilligan — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:51:05 +0000

Planning application number 11/0502
Registration date 10/08/2011
Location-Units 4 & 5, Lytham Trade Park, Preston Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5FP
Proposal: Change of use of units to class D2-Gym/fitness studio
Case Officer: Planning support Team

Planning application number 11/0548
Registration date 03/08/2011
Location-4 Wykeham Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 4JN
Proposal: Proposed entrance porch to front, velux windows to front and side roof slopes and pitched roof to existing dormers and additional dormer to rear.
Case Officer: Mrs C Kitching

Planning application number 11/0435
Registration date 28/07/2011
Location-Lytham Christian Centre, Preston Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 5AA
Proposal: Advertisement consent for 1 x internally illuminated fasica sign with static and moving elements
Case Officer: Alan Pinder

Planning application number 11/0441
Registration date 13/07/2011
Location-4 Whitecoates Drive, Lytham St Annes, FY8 4HH
Proposal: Proposed single storey side and rear extension to enlarge the dining room and kitchen and form new porch and WC cloaks
Case Officer: Alan Pinder